“If you have your Bible with you, and I hope you do, please open to Psalm 16.” Next time you hear one of our pastors say this at the beginning of a sermon, sneak a quick look around you. How many brought their printed Bible to church? How many are grabbing one from...
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) In 2014, researchers from the University of Virginia tested people’s ability to … well, sit quietly in a room alone. No devices, no reading material, no...
Let’s talk first about the parables series. Part of it may be that we’ve all been meeting together for these weeks, but there’s been an energy to this series. People have mentioned that they are taking a lot from it. What have you been hearing from God as you’ve been...
The new sermon series on Exodus: It’s a familiar story, and yet I’ve heard you mention that you see new things every time you study a book like this. The living Word of God never ceases to amaze me, especially as the Holy Spirit inspires something new for a new time....
Joshua certainly set an example of living the spiritual rollercoaster we all experience. From the high of the conquest of Jericho to the low of defeat at AI … from the low of having “sin in the camp” to the high of victory and rededication. When Joshua depended on the...
When asked to consider writing a blog post coinciding with our pastors’ sermon series on Joshua, I requested chapter 8 almost as a reflex driven by my military background. I remembered Joshua 8 records a textbook ambush. I owe it to my view of Scripture to start with...
