A Connecting Church
The church is more than a Sunday morning gathering for music, sermonizing, and donuts. It’s bigger than us. ...
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Going to look for Saul
Who are the great partners that God has brought into your life ...
Keep ReadingParachuting in
Barnabas’ posture had a tremendous impact on his experience and on the way others experienced him. We’re at our most healthy when we cultivate a similar posture....
Keep ReadingDisrupting Default Segregation
Ethnic segregation, socioeconomic segregation, political segregation … left to our own devices we’ll surround ourselves exclusively with people who look, spend, and think just like us....
Keep ReadingSmall Faithfulness
What might God do with your faithfulness?...
Keep ReadingTalk to God about it
The Lord of all the cosmos has chosen to treat you as a friend ...
Keep ReadingUnderestimating Jesus
This gap between who Jesus really is and who people perceive him to be shows up for all of us....
Keep ReadingME
Jesus isn’t just alive on the other side of the cross and the empty tomb, he’s present in the lives of his people. ...
Keep ReadingPrayer for the persecuted church
Opponents to God’s work in the world today can appear in various forms. Some come equipped with little more than snide comments and teasing. Others carry knives, bombs, and the hammer of unjust laws....
Keep ReadingPrayers of Protection
Turn away and pray and it will be okay. ...
Keep ReadingRadical Reorientation
The Lord isn’t done with our transformation at the moment of our initial conversion. Every day we follow him he works in our hearts and souls to change the way we think, love and live....
Keep ReadingThe Light Wins
No one is too lost to be found. No one is too stuck to be freed. No one is too evil to be loved....
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Contested Space
Every inch of ground gained by the kingdom of God has to be taken from other little imposter kingdoms....
Keep ReadingReady for Opportunities
How do we go from being unprepared to being prepared? ...
Keep ReadingCross-cultural connection
God’s power is put on full display when his followers cross racial, ethnic and cultural lines with the news and love of Jesus....
Keep ReadingDirection without details
Philip will get more instructions later in the passage. All he’s given to start with is a direction. But that was enough....
Keep ReadingA Dose of Joy
In a world that’s clearly not the way it’s supposed to be, God has intervened....
Keep ReadingDisruptive Forces
God is wildly available to us in these seasons of disruption....
Keep ReadingThe Source of Celebration
The arc of the universe bends toward celebration....
Keep ReadingStrength and Joy
Take some time today to meditate on the strength-giving joy of the Lord....
Keep ReadingA Noble Cedar Kind of Church
The Lord’s work in our hearts is to turn us back toward community in healthy and generous ways....
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