Archives for March 2017

The church is more than a Sunday morning gathering for music, sermonizing, and donuts. It’s bigger than us. ...

Who are the great partners that God has brought into your life ...

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....

It took outsiders to reach outsiders....

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....

What might God do with your faithfulness?...

The Lord of all the cosmos has chosen to treat you as a friend ...

This gap between who Jesus really is and who people perceive him to be shows up for all of us....

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. ...

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....

Turn away and pray and it will be okay. ...

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....

No one is too lost to be found. No one is too stuck to be freed. No one is too evil to be loved....

Every inch of ground gained by the kingdom of God has to be taken from other little imposter kingdoms....

The miracles earned him a hearing....

How do we go from being unprepared to being prepared? ...

God’s power is put on full display when his followers cross racial, ethnic and cultural lines with the news and love of Jesus....

Philip will get more instructions later in the passage. All he’s given to start with is a direction. But that was enough....

In a world that’s clearly not the way it’s supposed to be, God has intervened....

God is wildly available to us in these seasons of disruption....

The arc of the universe bends toward celebration....

Take some time today to meditate on the strength-giving joy of the Lord....

The Lord’s work in our hearts is to turn us back toward community in healthy and generous ways....