You don’t need the office of pastor to be pastoral. In fact, your church would shrivel and die if the Christians within your church stopped pastoring. There’s way too much pastoring to go around for only the pastors to pastor.

Believers who have died are with Christ in heaven. They don’t yet have the resurrection body, they don’t yet have the new earth, but they are eagerly waiting for these things, fully conscious and actively engaged in heaven.

Here are 5 Key Connections from recent Christian articles around the web, including one on what Hagar's life can teach us today, and another on the surprising places of discipleship.

Scripture does not chide parents for their brimming desire to give good gifts to their children—rather, it assumed that God’s design is for parents to have full, generous hearts.

When we sin, we receive its wages. And when we rest in God’s grace, we receive God’s free gift. It may be helpful to make a distinction between lifetime wages and daily wages. Lifetime wages of sin brings us eternal death. But what are the daily wages?

The more familiar I became with evangelical Christianity, the more I learned similar phrases like “God won’t give you more than you can handle,” and “God helps those who help themselves.”

Today, I want to offer a look into the life of Hagar. She was the female Egyptian servant to Abraham and Sarah. And her story may speak into your life today.

Happy Fourth of July! Here are 5 Key Connections from recent Christian articles around the web, including one on true liberty and one of freedom from evil.