A Faith Alive
James 2 is a descriptive passage, not a prescriptive one, which highlights hypocrisy amongst the highfalutin, but I cannot help but weep at the state of much of American Christendom. … More A Faith Alive
James 2 is a descriptive passage, not a prescriptive one, which highlights hypocrisy amongst the highfalutin, but I cannot help but weep at the state of much of American Christendom. … More A Faith Alive
Why is “keeping up with the Joneses” a thing, when we all know that keeping up with the Joneses is a thing and that it shouldn’t be a thing? … More When Reality and Expectation Collide
As much as we mourn the life we don’t have, can’t have, our God weeps over the loss as well. … More Understanding Lament
“Christianity is all about change. At the very root of the Gospel is a change from our being spiritually born dead to being born again by the Holy Spirit.” … More The Scariest Word in the English Language
by Bob Allen: When was the last time you meditated on your ears? Seriously, have you thought about how miraculous they are? Once upon a time, my wife and I lived in an apartment with a railroad track some 100’ from our backdoor. We didn’t think much of it when we moved in, and then … More The Impossible Made Real
Without Jesus, there is only hopeless sorrow. With Jesus, humanity has hope. With Jesus, illness and death lose their sting and become a door to eternity with the Lord. … More Prayer Is the Pathway to Hope
Dripping with the poison of my sin, twisted from beauty to monstrosity, sunken into the sweat-stained, anguished brow weeping with blood, the crown of thorns pierces, maims, adorns, exalts my Lord. … More Shattered at the Cross
by Paul List: Times are strange. A variety of changes we’ve never imagined, at least never before in my generation, comes at us quickly. The starts and stops recently have prohibited any semblance of a regular pattern in life. Summer is usually predictable: camp, vacation, family outings, pool visits and a variety of gatherings to … More Trusting God in Strange Days