Most of us like to plan our travel in advance. But spiritually, this doesn’t always work. Our “travel guide” - the Holy Spirit - is like the wind, blowing wherever…
“Power tends to corrupt.” Lord Acton’s perennial insight has taught us to be suspicious of power, and rightly so. After all, the gospel calls for the humbling of the proud…
“Love the sojourners… for you were sojourners” (Deut. 10:19). As much as we’d like to believe we’ve ‘arrived’ in life, God places the experience of journey, wilderness wandering, and liminal…
How we identify ourselves is an unavoidable question in modern life. No one wants to be put in a box - not even Jesus! Through a series of "I AM"…
How we identify ourselves is an unavoidable question in modern life. No one wants to be put in a box - not even Jesus! Through a series of "I AM"…
As we embark on this new year, new challenges are waiting to meet us. For some, those challenges may be discouraging or unwanted; for others, they may be much anticipated…
“Advent” means “coming,” a season most of us experience as a warm-up to the first coming of Christ celebrated at Christmas. But it’s also the time to prepare for Christ’s…
In a time when life seemed full and thriving, God sent the prophet Hosea to embody a message: ‘You’ve lost your center. Come home!’ Through his very own messy marriage…
When faith is your most precious gift, you want to share it and pass it on. But instead of “making disciples,” today’s church has largely disillusioned the next generation. What…
When faith is your most precious gift, you want to share it and pass it on. But instead of “making disciples,” today’s church has largely disillusioned the next generation. What…
RESTORE: The Lord is my Shepherd As we emerge from the pandemic, we're also rediscovering how busy our lives are. In this spring series, we'll turn to one of the…
Halfway through the Gospel of Luke, Jesus sets his face toward Jerusalem. The next 10 chapters we find Jesus on "the road," the same Greek word as "the way." As…
“Will you give me a drink?” Have you asked that question of Jesus lately? What do you thirst for? In the Gospel of John, Jesus first reveals he is the…
“Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing.” That’s how the classic carol describes Christ’s coming, as nothing less than a personal appearance of God in human flesh. This Advent…
The only thing constant about this past year was change - at home, work, school, even church. Now even the cause of all this change is changing as we adapt…
God is not like a math fact. You don’t learn it one day, and then just comprehend it perfectly. The early church described theology as a journey of “faith seeking…
God is not like a math fact. You don’t learn it one day, and then just comprehend it perfectly. The early church described theology as a journey of “faith seeking…
When church buildings are closed, and it’s too cold and dark to encounter God in nature, where can you find God? This feels like a challenging question, but it prepares…
Does Christmas ever feel a little flat to you? Like you are just re-opening the same gift year after year? We want love, joy, hope, and peace, but our nice…
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