Jesus said blessed are the poor. For us to really grasp what this means for us we need to understand what poverty means to God. What is his his heart for the poor, and how should that affect how we see poverty?

What does it mean to be blessed? Does it mean being happy or fulfilled? If I’m happy I’m blessed, and if I’m unhappy I’m not blessed? Or does it mean lucky? That things just seem to be going my way? Jesus gives an answer that is as unexpected today as it was two thousand years ago.

We’ve all heard the popular saying, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” It’s talking about the importance of teaching someone to do something for themselves, rather than doing it for them. Jesus lived this out far before […]

Temptation is the choice between doing something right or wrong. Choosing the right way can be challenging. Jesus was tempted three times, and in those three temptations we get a really good look at what motivated him and how he made the right call.

Throughout history there are a lot of people with big reputations. But are they accurate? Do we really know what the people we look up to stood for? What about Jesus?

We all have lenses through which we see the world. They inform how we live, how we think and what we do. But what if our lenses don’t allow us to really see everything? What if our worldview is incomplete? What if the lenses we see the world through conflict with what God wants us […]

How do we move on from a year like 2020? How do we process everything that happened and everything we went through? Jesus gives us a roadmap in how navigate the difficult past into a better future.

Christmas is not always what we hope or expect it to be. Things get weird. You get a terrible present and have to pretend “it’s perfect.” People talk politics, and it gets ugly. The reality is though, it’s not just Christmas, life in general is not always what we expect it to be. Thankfully, it’s […]

God’s plan for us is to experience peace that lasts. But peace like that can’t be made. It is found…in a person.

Not only is the world around us full of conflict, but the people around us can't seem to agree on anything. This makes peace a challenging thing to make with others. How are we supposed to go about making peace with the people in our lives? Is making peace even possible?