Nancy Guthrie

When Peter first meets Jesus, Jesus looks at him and he says, “You're Simon Bar-Jonah.” In our modern day we'd say, “You're Simon Johnson, son of John, but you're going to be called Cephas.” In our day, if somebody gives someone another name, it tends to be because they see some kind of potential in them.

Rather than thinking of Eden in terms of perfection, we should think of it in terms of potential.

These days, if we want to tell someone who we are, we have to be adept at defining it in 160 characters or less. We shrink our souls with a shrunken identity.

We don’t really know the spiritual reality of another person’s life. Here are some things to keep in mind.

People are really trying to do the best they can. Here's what happens with people.