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BLOG | O Come, O Come Emmanuel
It is difficult to comprehend the long anticipation for the coming of the Messiah experienced by the people of Israel. In our twenty-first century instant gratificatio...
POD 002 | Implausibility of faith in our culture. Male, female, gender, and marriage.
Is our faith plausible? When it comes to biblical teaching on male, female, gender is our faith plausible? Since 1859, Genesis 1:1 in the biblical text has become incr...
BLOG | Why I Can't Stand Christmas Music but Love This Carol
When I get past my personal music tastes and really pay attention to the lyrics of many traditional Christmas carols, I find them to have a deeply rich theology.
BLOG | The Song that Saved COVID Christmas Eve
Regardless of generation or circumstance, we all feel the weariness of the world — a world longing for the One who says “Come to me all who are weary and I will give r...
POD 001 | Stan Archie and Tom Nelson
We hope to challenge you in thinking deeply about what it means to follow Jesus in all of life. For today’s challenge we are talking about hope in a divided world; th...
BLOG | Joy to the World, Advent is Come!
The hope for the coming of this promised king goes back to the Old Testament, where it is foretold, among other places, in the Psalms.
BLOG | Equipped: How Role Playing Games Prepared Me for the Reality of Spiritual Warfare
I grew up in a normal home (albeit broken, like all of us), but was never equipped with anything beyond a naturalistic, or maybe vaguely dualistic, view of the world. ...
BLOG | The Heavens Declare
When the ancients considered the heavens, they were often afraid. It’s hard to blame them. The size and scope of it all, the blackness of the night sky, and the endles...
BLOG | A Loving and Biblical Approach to Gender Identity
As we wrestle with hard questions in our broken world, let’s not lose sight of praising God for how he created humans, men and women both, in his image to reflect his ...
BLOG | How to Pray More with Less
There is nothing quite as paradoxically familiar and foreign as talking with God.
BLOG | Two Tools to Fight the Darkness
The world is a dark place. I could prove it by asking you to open your news app of choice and scroll a few headlines, but I don’t even have to do that. We know that th...
BLOG | Thinking Slowly Together About Gender
Our local church is a place that invites challenging conversations and makes room for long, thoughtful engagement. To borrow a phrase from a recent book, we are invite...
BLOG | The Unhurried and Unstoppable Mission Of God
For over two decades we have been committed in our church mission and organizational culture to narrow the Sunday to Monday gap so perilously prevalent in the American...
BLOG | Horror and Sinai
Who is this God whom even the quarks and the photons obey?
BLOG | We the Fallen People Includes You and Me
If you’re anything like me, I’m sure you are frustrated and perplexed by the political partisanship that only seems to increase with each passing election cycle.
BLOG | One New Family?
One of the most beautiful things about “the mystery of Christ” referred to in Ephesians, is that because of the gospel we are given a whole new family. God is our Fath...
BLOG | What Would It Look Like If We Treated Others the Way God Treats Us?
For many, Ruth is an obscure Old Testament story that only gets attention during a Read the Bible in a Year plan, its brevity a relief as one plods through Leviticus, ...
BLOG | Why Community
Community groups, small groups, life groups, cell groups, gospel communities, no matter what you call it, if you have been to a church, you have likely been pitched th...
BLOG | His Body, My Choice
I have a choice on how I will use this body while I have it. Will I spend my energy cursing it for all the ways it breaks or doesn’t fit my standard of appearance/size...
BLOG | Is Reconciliation Possible? A Lesson from Africa
Desmond Tutu was the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and he died at the age of 90.
BLOG | Reconstructing Faith In Ephesians
“I am in a season of deconstruction.” It is likely that you have either read, heard, or said these words in recent months. The deconstructing of faith is a popular...
BLOG | The Spiritual Art of Navel-Gazing
The practice of navel-gazing was a way to contemplate and reflect upon the divine.
BLOG | The Gospel According to Twenty One Pilots
I believe the reason the fans of Twenty One Pilots are so profoundly impacted by their music is because through it, whether we realize it or not, we are getting a glim...
BLOG | New Creation Now
We long for wholeness in our communities, cities, and nations. Ultimately, all this longing points to a desire for new creation.
BLOG | A Prayer For a New Home
Since God cares about all of our life, we should prayerfully and intentionally invite Him into our homes at key moments with other believers.
BLOG | Afflicted, But Not Crushed
I am weak and weary. In the last two months, we almost had a house fire, sickness, grief on both sides of extended family, weird medical issues, multiple unexpected bi...
BLOG | The Lord Is Near
I’ve been feeling it again lately, the tightening in my chest, the tension that gathers there. It’s how my body lets me know that I need to slow down and pay attention...
