When God gave his people laws to live by, he wanted them to be “a light to the nations” so that everyone would look at them with envy and desire the good life they received from their good God. One way God told them to live differently was to be...

Biblical neighboring throughout the book of Ruth at times will be pictured as intentional and active, but also unintentional and passive. Ruth 1:1-22 seems to reveal a long-term, passive, unintentional, as well as a mutually beneficial, neighboring between Naomi and Ruth. There's even evidence that the Lord himself has been and continues to neighbor both Naomi and Ruth. Apparently, our biblical neighboring may at times need to go long and deep, yet be mutually beneficial!

Biblical neighboring throughout the book of Ruth at times will be pictured as intentional and active, but also unintentional and passive. Ruth 1:1-22 seems to reveal a long-term, passive, unintentional, as well as a mutually beneficial, neighboring...

See for yourself the illuminating vision and explicit purposes of God shining redemption across our community, nation and globe. Jesus changes our thinking and choices, and through these changes, your family, community, nation and world can make...

We have been talking about neighboring (shorthand for "love your neighbor as yourself") for nearly two months now. How are you doing with it? No, seriously... if you're honest, how are you doing with it? Are you discouraged and disappointed at how many opportunities you let slip by? Maybe you're actually ashamed of how you don't even care about your neighbors, or this series, at all. What if the primary goal of the parable of the Good Samaritan is not actually for you to love your neighbor... what if it was something better? What if this story was designed to show you who Jesus is and invite you into greater dependence on him?

We have been talking about neighboring (shorthand for "love your neighbor as yourself") for nearly two months now. How are you doing with it? No, seriously... if you're honest, how are you doing with it? Are you discouraged and disappointed at how...

Look around your neighborhood. Turn on the evening news. The needs are all around us and they are great. Do you ever feel like your attempts to intentionally love your neighbor are just too small to be worth it? Feel like they will never amount to anything of meaning in this world? Good news—in our ordinary acts of love there is true power. But it all depends on whose hands it is in.

Look around your neighborhood. Turn on the evening news. The needs are all around us and they are great. Do you ever feel like your attempts to intentionally love your neighbor are just too small to be worth it? Feel like they will never amount to...

This month we continue to explore more penetrating truths that flowing out of Jesus’ story about a good Samaritan. After hearing some of the sermons, have you felt overwhelmed by the weight of command? How can one person even begin to love all our neighbors? This Sunday we’ll see that actually God didn’t say, “Love your neighbors,” but rather, “Love your neighbor.” One small step in care to one person – does your heart feel lighter now? And there is more!