The American Dream tells us that if we work hard enough and believe enough in our own efforts, we can achieve anything. There’s a lie of Satan hiding beneath there, and that lie is one that leads us to call a statute of the Lord archaic that he intended for our benefit and his glory: the call to a Sabbath or to rest.
Read MoreFeasts give us a way to both remember the glorious things God has already done to work salvation, and to anticipate what he will one day do to usher in salvation totally.
Read MoreOne of my greatest weaknesses in my relationship with the Lord is how easily I accept a caricature of him rather than doing the hard work of believing the fullness of who he is.
Read MoreWhy, with all of the suffering around us, would God call us, his people, to gather and sing?
Read MoreDon’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
Read MoreGod never has to look into our eyes, sorrowfully apologizing for breaking a promise to us, because he has never broken a promise to us and he never will.
Read MoreJesus wants to shepherd us through times when we’re fatigued, exhausted, worn out.
Read MoreIt is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ that we can be brought into the fold of God’s people, adopted as his beloved children, made citizens of his everlasting kingdom.
Read MoreHow can some of the most hardened, hurt kids in one of the most drug addicted counties in the entire country be changing so drastically for the better? The answer is something that most of us have yet to make a habit out of.
Read MoreWhen we assemble together with our local church, we are participating in an event that has historic and miraculous significance.
Read MoreThis permission to lament, to ask difficult questions and engage God in the argument of my own ways while still trusting that his ways are far better and far above, is a salve for my own stinging heart.
Read MoreHow do I avoid turning Satisfied Hunger into a god that is always telling me that the one true God has not provided enough for me - not just with my food, but with everything else he’s given?
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