The Humble King

The entry of Jesus into Jerusalem is marked not by its grandeur, but by its humble trappings. There was no ornate litter hoisted on the shoulders of Jesus’s followers, there was no [...]

Losing Well I remember when I realized that I didn’t like to lose. I had just moved from Warren to Utica. I played soccer ever since I was 5 and absolutely loved it. We moved in the fall and all [...]

The celebration of the Jewish Passover requires the sacrifice of a lamb – something innocent standing in for man’s sins. In the same way, the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross [...]

Jesus spent much of his ministry teaching through parables − stories infused with relatable, everyday imagery with which the people could connect. Stories that illustrated both then and now that [...]

Have you ever seen the King? Once we’ve actually seen the King, there’s something about that experience that completely shatters us. It breaks us. It undoes us. In that undoing, we [...]

The world tries to tell us that the truth doesn’t matter, but that’s a lie…it matters more than we can comprehend! If you’re in the process of reconstructing your faith, you need a [...]

What stones of remembrance do you have in your life? Several times in the Bible we hear about ancient tribes and individuals marking significant times of God’s rescue, intervention, and [...]

We know we’ll never be perfect. We fail. We hurt ourselves and others. We stumble and do stupid things. We foolishly hang onto damaging habits and hang-ups even though we know they are not [...]

We’re coming out of a time period that has featured so much stress and conflict. How do we reconnect in community when we’re so primed for offense? How do we govern our reactions in a [...]

The first step in solving any problem is to realize that there is one. Where are you at with that? Where are you at in your understanding of the true nature of the Gospel of Jesus Christ? To what [...]