The Witness

What is your story? What is your testimony? What is your witness? Have you truly experienced God, and do you have the words to share that with others? Even when and perhaps because we suffer for [...]

A Higher Authority

To be a Christian, to be a follower of God, is the grittiest, toughest, most real thing that anyone can truly become. But it’s at times perplexing and deeply challenging. Maintaining faith [...]

A Refining Fire

Just as Isaiah proclaims “…I am a man of unclean lips,” so also do we. But also, just as the burning coal refined the prophet, so can we submit to that same holy refining.  Will [...]

A Misunderstood Grace

Community is the tool Christ uses to shape us. It is the furnace in which we are refined. It is the mirror of our soul that God uses to transform us. Grace may be frequently misunderstood, but it [...]

The Cost of Community

The church community should not rise or fall on the character of one individual except for Jesus Christ. If our eyes are on anyone else, our hope is misplaced and our spiritual future in eternal [...]

The Morning After

Did you know that God wants to celebrate with you?  Seriously! When we turn to him and receive the healing and forgiveness that he alone can offer, he longs for us to rejoice with him. [...]

Reach

What happens when we’re at the end of our hope? When we hit the rocky bottom of our lives, broken and spent… What kind of heroic effort does it take at that point to reach for the [...]

Self-Exaltation, or The Son of God

In our modern world, we are currently facing the twin tsunamis of AI-mania and identity ideology… What does the Bible have to say about all this and how do we think biblically on these most [...]

Hubris, or Humility

Are we too quick to speak the truth, posturing boldly, brashly…all in an effort to dominate the weaker argument? How does that come across to the person on the other end? What about the [...]

Consumerism, or The Cross

Do you possess possessions, or do your possessions possess you? This is a difficult question to answer honestly in our modern age of easy one-click shopping, social media flaunting of lifestyles [...]