Wrestling With God
When Wrestling Was Fun What do you do when you wrestle with faith? When you find it hard to believe? When I was a kid, Hulk Hogan was on TV…
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Is Anything Too Hard For God?
The Human Side of Faith We talk about faith, about being people of faith, we read about the heroes of faith in scripture, and there are people around us that…
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
Pride & Love In a classic book entitled “Humility,” Andrew Murray once wrote…. Hidden pride lives in self-seeking, self-will, self-confidence, and self-exaltation which stops the soul from entering the kingdom,…
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
Faith and Questions When I was young, my mom used to point to the small things around us and use them to teach us about God. About how the birds…
Living the Baptized Life
What’s the Bog Deal About Baptism? For many of us who consider ourselves followers of Jesus, we would say that in many ways, that journey began with our baptism. Our baptism was a literal watershed…
Gather: What if Everybody Gathered?
What does it mean to be the church? That’s a question worth thinking about. Is church something we show up to attend once a week? Do we choose a church…
Citizenship in Heaven
Elections, Anxiety, & Prayer With the presidential election in just two days, many of us are experiencing a tremendous amount of fear and anxiety. And I understand why. For those…
Sovereignty in Uncertainty
Political Uncertainty If you haven’t heard by now, there is an election coming up in our country. And you might be feeling a small amount of anxiety because of it….
Come & Believe
In Between It’s hard to see what we need to see when there’s something in between. Just a few weeks ago I was sitting in my office when someone knocked…
Come & See God’s Love
Hard to See Have you ever been looking for something that is right in front of you but you just can’t see it? Just the other day I was looking…