Worship never existed as escape from the world, but preparation for life within it.
For many years, I held piety as my god.
The reasoning was always the same. The gods were angry. The gods were hungry. The gods required payment.

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The grass withered for them too, but they held on to God’s Word. They knew that was eternal, so they lived in it. They lived in his forgiveness.
Today, we begin a short series profiling women in the Bible (Who are not named Ruth or Esther). Both the stories of Ruth and Esther are beautiful, gracious, and profound. We love reading and rereading them. However, in an attempt to bring attention to more stories of more women throughout the Scriptures, we choose now to shift our focus. Our first woman, is, the first woman herself: Eve.
To act according to a “theology of glory” that exalts in money and status at the cost of your brothers and sisters who are hurting or suffering in any way is to act in the opposite way of Christ.
It turns out that when Elijah battled depression, God sent someone to just be with him. To comfort him.
As the body positivity movement has gained traction, we must also be aware of some of its pitfalls
Is this text about marriage or Jesus? The answer should be obvious by now: Yes!
Here is the foundational cure for the evils of racism in human society, faith in Christ as definitive for racial identification.
Faith is a living, bold trust in God’s grace, so certain of God’s favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.
Through the often abominable and lamentable and occasional commendable season, there is one who remains unmoved by it all.
God’s love is axiomatic; it just is. It’s a truism without a logical explanation.
We can not give our Heavenly Father anything that will make him love us more or less. He gives and we receive.
Take away the communal aspect, take away the communal gathering around Christ’s body and blood, and the Christian will begin to suffer a malnutrition of faith.