God has a plan for you
Does God have a plan for your life? About 15-20 years ago I became friends with a guy who was a former football player for Alabama. He played under the…
God has a plan for you
God Hears, God Forgives, and God Heals
If you could ask the God of the universe for something and you knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that he would hear your request and answer, what would…
God’s Love Never Fails
What do you think about God? A.W. Tozer once made this observation. He wrote, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about…
The Promise, The Prophecy, Racism, and God’s Answer
Ta-Nehisi Coates once wrote these words in his book, Between the World and Me, a book that reads as a letter to his son, “Black people love their children with…
All God’s Promises are Yes and Amen
Stones of Remembrance When my wife Alisha and I were in Israel, we quickly realized we needed a way to remember some of the most important moments of that trip….
The Good News as a Verb
In her amazing book entitled, Not Ashamed, Rev. Fleming Rutledge makes this profound statement: “It can’t be said too often: if the story of Jesus of Nazareth had ended with…
The Good News as Our Mission
Why are you here? This past week I was thinking about some of the good news stories I’ve been hearing. One of my favorites involves one of our members who…
The Good News about the Holy Spirit
In the movie, Apollo 13, this phrase became iconic… “Houston, we have a problem.” You may remember the story. In 1970, NASA was hoping to send three astronauts to the…
The Good News about Heaven
“A massive assumption has been made in Western Christianity that the purpose of being a Christian is simply, or at least mainly, to “go to heaven when you die…”– N.T….
Living in the In-Between
Now What? Each year Easter Sunday is a reminder that something happened 2000 years ago that changed everything. The big question following the resurrection of Jesus following Easter Sunday is…