Epic Every Day

Worldview Week--Day Five: Evan and Liz talk about how the previous topics in Worldview Week all fit together, giving a coherent method of sorting out truth-wheat from not-truth-chaff.  Because God ha…

Worldview Week--Day Four: We live in an age of relentless information—coming at us through our phones, the TV, the Internet, from friends and teachers and co-workers. But no one can accept all the in…

Worldview week day three: It’s not that Evan and Liz Frerichs hold Tai Chi in higher esteem than the Bible. But they believe the core principles of Tai Chi—being calm, surrender, centered, connected,…

Worldview Week--Day Two: All truth is God’s truth—it’s a phrase Evan and Liz feel describes the world around us. God’s truth is so embedded in the world that evil, try as it might, cannot totally rep…

Worldview Week--Day One: Faith is based on the works of God – it’s not a blind leap off of a cliff! Faith isn’t something we’re born with. By God’s design, and by natural processes, growth comes thro…

What must have it been like for Jesus to be present--in the moment, not looking for an escape—while he is hanging on the cross? He asked God for another way in the garden, but now he’s following thro…

All people at some point in their lives feel abandoned by God, but Jesus is the only person to actually experience that abandonment. The words he spoke from the cross are a quote from the Old Testame…

Jesus was no stranger to mobs—some of the time they adored him, but more often than not they wanted to kill him. Today we talk about Jesus hanging on to his identity in the midst of crazy. He knows w…

Who are you when it’s just you and God? Like Jesus in the garden alone the night before he died. We see his faith and his struggle to obey. We get a powerful story of Jesus surrendering before the or…

It’s the week before Easter, and we’re going to spend time this week reading about and thinking about the way Jesus used the CSCs (Calm, Surrender, Center, Connected, & Complete) in the few days befo…

We tend to make value judgments on things that come into our life. If the car breaks down, that’s bad; if I get a good grade on a test, that’s good. But this value setting is a gateway drug to a bigg…

There are joy thieves among our family of believers. They’re often disguised as teachers of truth, telling you things like “God won’t put on your more than you can handle” or “God helps those who hel…

Talking about Centered today and Joy: how there is joy in embracing who we are designed to be by God, how the power to do that comes from acting in the spirit, not from our own power. That’s why we t…

Why do we think there is some mystery to obtaining the promises of the Christian life like joy and peace, but if we want salvation we just need to ask in faith? These abundant-life qualities are more…

When we seek happiness, we end up withholding from ourselves the fullness of the Christian life. Sometimes we hold back on purpose thinking, ‘You don’t deserve joy.’ But it’s not about “deserve,” it’…

However you approach suffering, whatever explanation you use to justify or condemn it, the explanation has to make sense. Evan and Liz Frerichs believe the Christian view of suffering it the only one…

One way to really lock in the destructive results of suffering is to suffer alone. This is a recipe for disaster. There is amazing healing power in sharing your suffering with a trusted friend and sp…

When troubles come, do you say “Why am I so unlucky!?” or do you say “What are you doing God? I don’t understand, help me!” Life is a series of moving from imbalance to imbalance, but our center come…

We don’t always (or ever) get to know why we’re suffering. Suffering and redemption are such powerful themes in our faith that even the angels desire to know more about it. Get pen and paper ready wh…

Ever heard “Don’t sweat the small stuff; it’s all small stuff”? How comforting is that? Not much. Christians have the unique ability to hang on to how difficult suffering is as well as provide hope i…