The greatest obstacle to friendship in middle age isn't that nobody wants friends. It's that everyone is waiting for someone else to go first. But here's the good news: Christ has already gone first for you. And because He has, you are free to go first for someone else.
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09/02/26
Ecclesiastes tells us that there is a time for everything under heaven. But God has also placed eternity in our hearts, and that makes us strange creatures: able to rejoice in this life yet always aching for a life that only Christ can give.
08/28/26
What does it take to draw near to God? It takes a perfect priest, a finished work, and a broken body to open the way. In short, it takes everything, which is exactly what Christ has given for you.
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01/05/26
Wake Up Dead Man is not ultimately a story about mystery, exposure, or even justice. It is a story about what happens when mercy speaks to death—and death listens.
12/30/25
The story of your life stretches beyond the dash on the tombstone.
12/15/25
Christ did not merely urge humanity to be kind. He embodied perfect kindness by giving his life for those who neither earned nor expected such a gift.
11/19/25
While Thoreau’s Walden is seen as a central text of that most American of virtues—self-reliance—quiet ambition as envisioned by Tinetti is exactly the opposite: dependence on God.
11/05/25
The testimony of the Word assures us that God isn’t waiting for us at the top of the stairs, with arms folded and brows furrowed.
10/06/25
Faith takes God at his word and holds his promise to be true for me because I know God would not lie to me.
10/01/25
This article is the first part of a two-part series. The second part will take a look at when pastors abuse their congregations.
09/08/25
When your child asks about what we believe, and why we believe it…answer.
09/04/25
Treweek points us to the happy ending to come in eternity, when the entire church will be married to her Redeemer.
08/27/25
Here is the true story, the one worth remembering: You are a gift.
08/20/25
Children are not meant to carry crowns. They are not meant to rule. The burden crushes them in slow, invisible ways.
08/11/25
We need redemption, and we receive it in our church community through God’s Word.
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