Sabbath Thoughts

Mark's gospel account starts with an impressive momentum and doesn't let up. There's a sense of urgency and action that pervades the entire account....

Fire consumes. That's a fundamental rule. It's how the whole thing works. It's energy and light from a fuel source that's being ripped apart on the...

Let's talk about your best life for a minute. Are you living it? Do you ever worry that maybe you aren't living it? Could the entire concept...

Tomorrow, we're going to start moving through the book of Proverbs on the Read & Reflect section of the site. I hope you'll consider joining us...

. . . is to be willing to be bad at it first. That usually means looking foolish in front of others. It means lacking the tools, skills, and even...

Easy. Just one. …Probably. If everything goes according to plan. But… whose plan? And that’s where faith gets complicated. David had absolute...

Stop me if you've heard this one. Once upon a time, there was a wealthy landowner who wound up with more crops than he knew what to do with. His...

Peter’s at a tough age. That age is called “three.” He is a kind, sweet, sensitive, thoughtful, empathetic, loving little boy who sometimes finds...

If you had to guess what your life would look like 17 years from now, do you think you could do it with any degree of accuracy? I couldn’t. And that...

Hey. Take a look at this verse: “And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ”...

If you’re doing good things in order to be seen, you’re doing them for the wrong reason. But if you’re doing good things, you will be seen. “For...

It’s easy to praise the God who gives you what you ask for. The God who opens doors of opportunity for you. The God who pours down blessings on you...

How do you make something holy? Trick question—you can’t. You can keep something holy, like the Sabbath. God told us to “remember the Sabbath day,...

Before they were known as Christians, the early followers of Jesus Christ were identified as “belonging to the Way” (Acts 9:2, ESV). I love that. It...

I’m big into board games. If you know me, this is no surprise. Even if you don’t know me, it’s probably not much of a surprise. I’ve already...

The year was 1089. A scribe sat down to finish his current project: a handwritten copy of the gospel accounts in Greek. He wasn’t the first to do...

On Sinai, God gave Moses verbal blueprints for constructing His tabernacle—the tent in which He would dwell with Israel during their time in the...