Twisting Scripture

What is our faith built on…shifting sand or the solid rock of Biblical truth? Do the changing winds of the world’s trends sweep our thinking away from Christ leaving us confused, [...]

Train Up A Child

This passage is often mistaken for a promise, when it is really a guiding principle. One that we can apply with humility, knowing that we all fall short at times. For the follower of Jesus [...]

Called By My Name

This passage rests in a specific historical and cultural context, but its principles infuse the core of Jesus’s teaching of repentance. What gets in our way of repentance? Are we so wrapped [...]

In Jesus’ Name

Is prayer for us a way of self comfort? A way of trying to have God do what we want him to do?  As long as we say it “in Jesus’ name,” well… The phrase “in [...]

Two or Three

The context in which two or three are gathered is to judge a situation, a distressing circumstance of sin. The promise is that the LORD will be there to help sort it out, to provide discernment [...]

Prosperity

What does this passage really mean for us? Is it about living our “best life now” or something else? Something more lasting, more eternally meaningful… And really, at the end of [...]

All Things

We can take a passage like Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”, and throw it around to celebrate a sports victory, career success, or promote [...]

Goodness

As followers of Christ, somehow even the brokenness and damage of our circumstances gets woven together into a beautiful tapestry that only God can conceive. He uses *everything* in the weaving, [...]

Jesus Freaks

The Scripture tells us that there’s literally nothing new under the sun. Governments rise and fall, societies experience chaos, trends sweep in and out the door just as fast. There have [...]

Judgment

This scripture, more than any other, is too often misused to claim that Jesus taught not to judge at all. Ever. But nothing could be further from the truth! What Jesus actually teaches is that we [...]