And just like that, it's over. Again. Seven days of rejoicing before God—a thousand years of peace and prosperity under the loving reign of Jesus...
Onward
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Holy Day
Sabbath Thoughts focused specifically on God’s holy days.
Look Ahead
There are so many ways to lose sight of what matters. It can be the stack of bills that keeps piling up, even though you're not sure how you're...
Remember Your Creator
Six thousand years of human history. Six thousand years of empires rising to the height of power, of discoveries allowing us to harness the laws of...
The King Is Coming
It's been a long time since Christ told the Church, "Surely I am coming quickly" (Revelation 22:20). Almost two millennia, actually. And for those...
Do the Work
From a calendar perspective, Pentecost is an odd duck. It stands a good distance away from the hustle and bustle of the initial spring Holy day...
Ruined
The other day, a friend and I were talking about marking our Bibles. We're both terrible perfectionists, so we were lamenting how easy it is to feel...
Keep Going
You didn't get it all, did you? Even now, as the Feast ends and we're allowed to bring things like bread and baking soda and self-rising flour back...
Begin
When Israel first kept the Passover, it was with the backdrop of a broken, shattered Egypt. God had brought the mighty nation to its knees for the...
Just Passing Through
The Feast of Tabernacles is almost here. Are you excited? Of course you are. That was a silly question. I don't know that I've ever met someone not...
The Devil Didn’t Make You Do It
Here's a fun thought experiment: Where do you think the human race would be today if Satan hadn't been in the garden with Adam and Eve? The third...
As He Is
The hardest thing about being a Christian, in my experience, is being a Christian—that is, a physical being from a physical world trying to follow a...
Hiraeth for the Kingdom
One of my favorite things about foreign languages are the words that don't translate well. A crêpe, for instance, is not what most Americans call a...
Do You Want to Be Made Well?
The pool of Bethesda was a magnet for the sick and the infirm of Jerusalem. A great and pitiful multitude lay sprawled out across its five covered...
Under the Surface
Chris Hemsworth is a hypocrite. You might recognize the 31-year-old actor from his role as the superhero Thor in Marvel's cinematic universe. Three...
The Privilege of Footwashing
Without the footwashing ceremony, the Passover service would require almost no interaction with our fellow Church members. It would be an intensely...
Lost in the Undertow
It rarely starts with something big. David was just standing on a rooftop. Achan was just following orders. Eve was just hungry. Everyone "was just"...
The Violent Take It
Did anyone else have a hard time leaving the Feast this year? Because I sure did. Maybe it was the way the ocean greeted us every morning as we...
The Day We Win
For roughly six thousand years, the human race has been embroiled in a bitter war with a ruthless enemy. It's a treacherous war, because most people...