156 Hugging Porcupines, Serve Selflessly, and Loving As We're Loved
When reading the fourth chapter of John's first letter, it would be tough for the author to be more clear with what he wants God's people to do: "Beloved, let us love one another" (4:7), "we also ough...
21 Kesä 202326min
155 Truth Testing
We're back in 1 John, and this time it's a warning about what can get in the way of our usefulness and our intimacy with Christ: false teaching. While it may seem a little easier to notice in the worl...
14 Kesä 202324min
154 Endings and Beginnings
After 4 weeks in the book of Joel in our corporate worship gatherings, we're finally going to take some time to talk about it. But as some things come to an end, other things are just getting ready to...
7 Kesä 202325min
153 All in the Family: A Conversation with Brett Harris
As a local church grows in size, it can become increasingly difficult to actually know everyone in the community and, thus, to be blessed by everyone in the community. This is unfortunate because ther...
31 Touko 202319min
152 I Vow...
Many times throughout the Bible we see people making a vow or swearing an oath—sometimes to God or before God, sometimes in the name of God. But what does it actually mean to make a vow, what was the ...
17 Touko 202321min
151 All is Vanity!
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." This is the way that "the preacher" starts his exploration of life and purpose in Ecclesiastes 1. It's a fascinating, philosophical book in the middle of the Old T...
10 Touko 202322min
150 Sin: What's the Big Deal?
As Christians, we know that sin is bad, right? It's wrong, it's opposed to God, it ruins everything, and ultimately it is why Jesus had to die. But even with all that head-knowledge, it's not uncommon...
3 Touko 202325min
149 Feeling Distant
It's an all-too-common issue: we go through a season of suffering (or perhaps the opposite) and find ourselves feeling far from God. Maybe it feels like he's abandoned us, or muted us out, or perhaps ...
26 Huhti 202326min
