Scott Sauls

While each intimate event has its special features, the one that speaks to me most about God, humanity, and the meaning of everything, is the one that includes a deathbed. I am welcomed to the deathbed because of my role—to shepherd, comfort, pray and speak words of life to people in their final days.

Some say that Christians should support one political party and should never support the other. Interestingly, there are people from the left as well as from the right who talk this way. I don’t think kingdom politics are that simple. Let’s talk about a few reasons why, shall we?

Things We Don’t Want to Talk About (But Probably Should)

When we come into his prayer meetings drunk – drunk on our ambition, our greed, our resentful grudges, our pornographic imaginations, our self-righteousness.

Perhaps it is this quality of God’s—his affection for using the weakest vessels to accomplish his greatest work—that compelled Henri Nouwen to adopt the practice of what he called “downward mobility.”

Jesus' Politically Diverse Disciples - Wherever the reign of Jesus is felt, differences are embraced and even celebrated as believers move toward one another in unity and peace.

For as long as I had been a Christian, I had heard a teaching – which I came to understand as unbiblical and very destructive – that being a Christian and struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts aren’t supposed to go together.

Randy Alcorn: "I love this advice from Scott Sauls about how to receive criticism and respond with grace. There’s a lot of wisdom here."

These days, the name “ Christian ” seems to evoke as many negative reactions as it does positive ones. This bothers me. Does it bother you?

Because politics are so heated, the season we are in presents Christians with a unique opportunity to live counter-culturally to the typical partisan spin and vitriol.