Eating is something that we generally take for granted, especially in a country of abundance where few of us have ever faced a true scarcity…
Yesterday was Pentecost Sunday. It was also the day in which our sermon series on Matthew 18 brought us to the issue of having our sin confronted (Matthew…
One of the latest Johnson & Johnson commercial is quite an understatement: “Having a baby changes everything.” As exciting, thrilling, and moving it is to…
It is a dreaded topic. It is probably not preached enough. And when it is preached I rarely leave feeling very good about the overall…
Probably most of us have heard of Jim Collins’ bestselling book from 2001, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t. It…
Emily recently wrote about Mary the mother of Jesus as a type of Christ carrier for all of us to model ourselves after. There are…
As I have mentioned before, my Grandpa was a gregarious and boisterous coal-miner-turned-Pentecostal-preacher from the Appalachian mountains. There was nothing subtle about him. He would…
Someone once observed that church had become so focused on the performance of the preacher and worship leaders that the people attending had actually begun…
At the root of faith is trust. Faith cannot be built without trust anymore than a water molecule can be built without hydrogen. Trust is…
I have gone to a lot of church services in my lifetime. And if I had to try to guess which passage from Scripture I…
I took the red pill yesterday, and God showed me how deep in my heart the rabbit-hole goes. It started with what seemed like a…
When I was writing yesterday’s post on coming undone I could not help but think of the other similar stories in the New Testament of women…
There are times when we feel like we have to know. Times when not knowing seems as if it might drive us to the edge of…
Painted by Akiane Kramarik at age 8. Learn more and view her gallery at akiane.com The Word in the word There are three passages in…
There is a good bit of repetition in the gospels, stories that are told more than once. This is especially true in the Synoptic gospels…