Before technology became ‘the’ way to communicate, face to face exchange and personal, handwritten messages managed to hold an ever-expanding society together for millennia. The spoken word was invaluable. The…
“Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief!” (Mk. 9:24) One source of encouragement throughout Scripture is the number of times men and women openly express their weakness and confusion and even their…
I work at an eye clinic located in a hospital that serves a large amount of underprivileged people. Many of them are homeless, have serious mental health issues, or are…
Joy Now Ours It is possible for us to wrongly focus on the person of Jesus. For example, Isaiah refers to him as a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.…
Our eyes relax in a darkened room without the need to focus but when lights are abruptly brought back up, like after a movie at the theater, we wince with…
This week we welcomed special guests Duke and Marie Lancaster, of Metron Ministries. It was a great time of fellowship, laughter, encouragement, and ministry. Here is a little about them, copie from…
What God has done; what we’ve become; what is ours; what is now our place of permanent belonging: these things stagger the imagination. All aspects of our salvation, our in-Christ…
A consistent Bible theme: certain consequences for disobedience. It is illustrated from Eden, the people of Noah’s day, Abraham, Moses, David, the entire people of Israel, through to the New…
The ‘in Christ’ life is 100% complete, saturated with Christ’s fullness. The simple, life-giving story, too, is complete, missing no details, with no exceptions, no margin of error, both divinely…
Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus is brimming with evidences of his fatherly love. His thinking has been so thoroughly overhauled by the perfection of God’s revealed love that…
