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 love of God is creative, always giving, always reviving.
This is the second article in a special three-part Advent series on how Jesus is our prophet, priest, and king.
In Scripture, laments are raw expressions of grief, but they always point to hope. What if our culture’s obsession with holiday lights is an unconscious way of crying out, “We need good news, and we need it now”?
The Lord’s provision doesn’t rest on the strength of our gratitude.
The Lord has an answer to your tears, your trouble, your weariness, your enemies, your grief, your shame, your sin.
No amount of ritual, sacrifice, devotion, or money could ever do what Jesus of Nazareth was sent to accomplish.
If we picture the New Testament as a divinely painted masterpiece that hangs in the middle of a museum, then all around it are other works of the period, in different corridors of the museum, in many styles, painted by diverse artists, with variations of color and technique.
Let your soul grieve, yes, but don’t let it be eaten alive by worry.
Jacob is given the gospel afresh right when he needed it and it is because of this gospel that his faith is stirred up anew.
“Praying the Bible” sounds odd to the ears of most believers today. That’s unfortunate.
With so many TV preachers, pastors, and Bible teachers claiming to be authoritative voices for God himself, how do you know who to listen to?
The good news for Jacob is that God humbled himself so that he could lose a wrestling match to a man with a dislocated hip so that he could give him a new name.