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Steven Lee is the Pastor of Preaching and Vision at The North Church in Mounds View, Minnesota, where he lives with his wife, Stephanie, and their five children. He is a graduate of Bethlehem College and Seminary.

We Complain Because We Forget

We Complain Because We Forget

Grumbling and complaining are symptoms of spiritual amnesia, a disease that will kill us unless we make every effort to remember God’s grace to us.

Four Reasons We Don’t Share the Gospel

Four Reasons We Don’t Share the Gospel

Why don’t we share the gospel more than we do? Here are four things that keep us from speaking about our faith, and four ways we can grow together in our evangelism.

Give Your Weakness to God

Give Your Weakness to God

“How are you doing?” It’s a pet peeve of mine — that I’m also guilty of — when those words are used as a greeting rather than as a question. It’s easy to say, “How are you doing?” without actually…

The Cup Consumed for Us

The Cup Consumed for Us

Matthew shows us an odd exchange between Jesus and his disciples. In Matthew 20:20–28, the mother of James and John, in typical motherly fashion, asks Jesus whether her nice, upstanding sons can sit beside Jesus in his kingdom. James and…

God Will Use Even You

God Will Use Even You

I didn’t attend an Ivy League school. I was not a cum laude graduate. I’m not a founder, innovator, CEO, or visionary of any company. I sit on no boards. I am the trustee of nothing more than my personal…

Anxious About Nothing: How the Promises of God Calm Our Fears

Anxious About Nothing

How the Promises of God Calm Our Fears

Fear and anxiety are common, and increasing, threats to faith. How do we identify and fight our particular battles with worry?

God Shines Most in Our Messiness

God Shines Most in Our Messiness

God often does his clearest work in and through us as we serve each other, especially in our messiness.

Anti-Porn Is Not Enough

Anti-Porn Is Not Enough

The key to overcoming pornography is not just to avoid pornography, but to discover that God and his will for you are far better.

God Works Through the Weak

God Works Through the Weak

Don’t wait until you feel strong to venture something great for God. Admit your weakness, step out in faith, and expect God to be your strength.

Guilt Evangelism: A Better Reason to Share Your Faith

Guilt Evangelism

A Better Reason to Share Your Faith

We will not share the gospel consistently if we’re not convinced it’s important for our spiritual growth and intimacy with Jesus.

Don’t Keep the Gospel to Yourself

Don’t Keep the Gospel to Yourself

When God saved you, he put you on mission to see others saved. If you haven’t shared the gospel recently, here are three important questions to ask.

Weakness Is No Excuse for Sin

Weakness Is No Excuse for Sin

If you go to war with your sin, expect to be exhausted, discouraged, and weak. And expect God to give you everything you need.

Mercy at the Bottom: How Jonah Leads Us to Our Knees

Mercy at the Bottom

How Jonah Leads Us to Our Knees

If you think you have run too far or sinned too much to come to God in prayer, you may need to kneel a little longer with Jonah.

Three Ways to Remember God’s Grace

Three Ways to Remember God’s Grace

If we see our world, our lives, and our circumstances through the lens of Jesus’s cross, everything will come into focus. And that clarity of sight will awaken joy in us. It is looking through this lens that we find a deep sense of what it means to be loved by a good and kind heavenly Father.

From Chore to Treasure: How Joy Transformed My Christianity

From Chore to Treasure

How Joy Transformed My Christianity

If Christianity feels like a chore — all duty and no joy — you may not have experienced the life Jesus really bought for you at the cross.

Count the Cost in the New America

Count the Cost in the New America

Eight Ways to Engage with Hope

Trends in our day may discourage us, and opposition to our faith may rise, but Christians are called to engage — and do so with hope.

Good Leaders Are Easy to Follow: How Shepherds Shape the Sheep

Good Leaders Are Easy to Follow

How Shepherds Shape the Sheep

Leaders can lead in a way that makes obedience and submission easy and happy, or difficult and frustrating.

Reject the World’s Whitewashed Words for Evil

Reject the World’s Whitewashed Words for Evil

Part of the cause for life today is identifying and exposing the world’s whitewashed words for evil. The abortions taking place are not merely routine medical procedures, but in fact the systematic killing of children. We have to reject softer, more digestible terms, and call evil what it really is.

Hostility, Fragility, and Hope: Lessons from Pastoring Through Racial Tensions

Hostility, Fragility, and Hope

Lessons from Pastoring Through Racial Tensions

Few things today are as divisive, hostile, fragile, challenging, and complex as race relations are in America, but we, of all people, are not without hope.

The Paradox of Christ for a Polarized World

The Paradox of Christ for a Polarized World

The love of Jesus undoes us all in one way or another. And if we will humble ourselves before him, the same Jesus will heal us and bind us together.

Embodied Creativity: Delighting in God Through Diversity

Embodied Creativity

Delighting in God Through Diversity

Ethnic harmony is a response to the cross, where Jesus broke down dividing walls, and it’s also a preparation for heaven, where all peoples will praise him.

Judgment for Pastors: How Shepherds Prepare to Meet Jesus

Judgment for Pastors

How Shepherds Prepare to Meet Jesus

A pastor who has grown bored in ministry is a pastor who has fallen asleep in ministry. How could we grow cold when we consider where our work ends?

The Embattled Pastor: How to Navigate Conflict and Criticism

The Embattled Pastor

How to Navigate Conflict and Criticism

Unresolved conflict produces some of the heaviest seasons of church life. And the ones who often carry that weight the most are pastors.

The Power of Praying Together

The Power of Praying Together

How many times has God used the prayers of someone else to awaken us from spiritual sleepiness? Gathered prayer can be a powerful gift to faith.

When Elders Disagree: A Pathway for Pastoral Conflicts

When Elders Disagree

A Pathway for Pastoral Conflicts

When fellow elders disagree, how can we preserve plurality, honor divergent views, and continue shepherding in harmony?

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