Josh Benner

Tag: devotional

  • The American Gospel and the meaning of Easter

    Originally posted April 6, 2012 Statistically, we know that the vast majority of Americans believe in some form of a higher power. There are relatively few who are atheists. Since people do believe that there is something, and since it’s so easy to think of the majority of Americans as Christians, many simply attach themselves…

  • Life lessons from baseball

      Tomorrow is opening day of the 2018 Major League Baseball season. Between opening day and the end of the season in early November, more than 2,430 games will be played. Baseball’s regular season is the longest in American professional sports, nearly doubling the 82 games NBA and NHL seasons. I think about the baseball…

  • The easiest part of the gospel we forget

    Love. In Evangelical circles, we, righty, have a high view of scripture and studying God’s word. That’s important. But I sometimes feel like it can be so easy to get caught up in having proper theology we forget the most practical application OF the theology. Love for God and love for people. If I have…

  • If you want to be a runner, run. If you want to be a Christian, run to God.

    Let’s say you say you’re going to start running. And so you buy running shoes, you subscribe to runner’s magazines, you start wearing spandex, like all the time. And then six months goes by, and you still haven’t taken your shoes out of the box… You’re not a runner. Having all of the things a…

  • Tips for developing a daily Bible reading plan

    I did a survey of people who say that they spend time reading in the Bible everyday. I asked “For people who read the Bible everyday, curious if it’s ever a challenge?” I gave two possible answers There are days where I definitely have to push myself. Nope, never ever a challenge, never fight being lazy…