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…
The Gospel of Matthew is broken up into five discourses. The fourth discourse, which is found in eighteenth chapter, is often called the Discourse on…
I have a confession to make. I have always struggled over the way we talk about thanksgiving (the attitude, not the holiday). I am not…
Satisfaction versus hunger, it is one of Scripture’s many paradoxes. On the one hand, there is a certain satisfaction or contentment that we are expected…
Sometimes everything you know, love, and remember about a poerson can be summed up in one picture. A moment frozen in time that speaks continually…
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…
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…
When we arrive at the Sermon on the Mount we are only a few chapters into the New Testament. Leading up to the sermon we…
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…
Everyone wants to leave a legacy. Everyone wants to be remembered for something, and to leave something in the hands of those who come after…
I want to say this up front. I am challenged by what follows. In fact, I don’t really like today’s post. As I contemplate it…
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…
Have you ever heard the phrase come undone? We use it to refer to situations where everything suddenly seems to fall apart. We use it…
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…