This Sunday concludes our worship series on Jesus’ Greatest Hits. We have heard about the kingdom’s priorities: righteousness and servant...

We are good. We can be better. Our prayer is good. Our prayer can be better. As we continue through the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus’...

“To be a disciple means less about believing in a set of propositions and more about acting upon God’s Word as interpreted by Jesus.” —...

Christian discipleship is really quite simple: Follow Jesus. Be an active learner. Love all. Model your life after his. Make disciples....

I am a do-er. I like to do things and I like to accomplish things. I set up goals and then celebrate when I can mentally check them off....

We are people who need to be part of people. It’s our identity; who we belong to. And often, we define our identity by who we hate. At...

I continue to be amazed with the human capacity for denial, including my own. When things are unpleasant, we put enormous effort into...

Some parts of Christian living are just so clear from the gospels: love your enemies, care for the poor, stand up for the oppressed,...

Some things are too big to believe until we experience them. Real love is that way. No amount of writing words can communicate real love...

We follow a God who did not drag himself out the grave, exhausted but upright (like I sometimes am on a Monday morning). But we follow a...

Recently my daughter asked me, “does pain make you stronger?” She had heard some version of the old saying, “what doesn’t kill you makes...

This Sunday we enter the most meaningful week of the entire year. We begin with Palm Sunday, 10 a.m., when Jesus enters Jerusalem,...

One of the most common reasons I hear that people reject God is that God lets bad things happen to good people. It’s really the question...

Listening to a recorded song is fun, but going to a live concert is an event. Talking on the phone with a friend is fine, but getting...

In Scripture, our ancestors in faith followed a pattern in their spiritual journeys: they doubted & questioned (real, honest, hard...

In the gospel, Jesus is asked 187 questions. He answers (maybe) 8 of them. Jesus asks 307 questions. And yet many of us have been taught...

When I meet with other church leaders, there is often a how-are-we-doing time that begins with lament at the state of the church...

Young people have a lot to teach other generations. The wisdom of God in them is fresh and full of vibrancy. For example, the word “God”...

Jesus told his disciples they are salt and light. Jesus tells us the same thing. Both salt and light only matter as they relate to other...

The “blessed” sayings of Jesus lay out God’s mission statement for the kingdom of heaven. These blessings are not transactional , i.e. do...