God So Loved

What does it mean that “God so loved”? In what way does that affect the world? In what way does that affect our lives? How do we move beyond understanding this as more than a popular [...]

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 [...]