This weekend we heard the story of Hagar and God’s goodness to her in the wilderness. There’s so much to see in her story, and this time I got to focus on where she was on her journey and how God met her there. I can imagine her fear for herself, her child, and her […]

What is in the Bible? We look at the story of the scriptures and look at our place.

Our society is a very loud place. Everyone seems at odds with everyone else in a culture where strong opinions and disagreements are pervasive. Generalizations and stereotypes bog down civil discourse to the point where no one is really willing to listen to anyone else, so they separate into their separate camps and yell at […]

If you look back at all the relationships you’ve had, what do you see? The first thing I notice is the diversity—no relationship is like any other. Some have brought out the best parts of me, and some have brought out the worst. There have been friends who have been challenging, in good ways and […]

When life’s storms come out of left field, we are presented with two choices of how to handle it—trust God, or don’t.   Trusting God is the best choice, but also the hardest one. It requires us to let go of control, even as circumstances spiral into mayhem. When we don’t understand why we’re experiencing […]

It can be tempting for some of us to weather a storm alone, but that isn’t how God intended us to function. Community is imperative to us in our lives, for the good times and the bad. No one is born with the strength to stand through life’s storms. We are trained in our faith […]

Pastor Jonathan Strohbusch, from Cornerstone Church in Milwaukee,  joins us this week and helps us live a life of faith, not paralyzed by fear.

Our lives are short. And we don’t want to waste one minute of it. So, what is the kind of life we can live so when we get to the end, we’ll know we made the most of it?

What are you devoted to?   Some people chase a certain type of lifestyle, or the glory of being a certain type of person. For others it may be to achieve—to get a better job, another degree, a title, or renown. How much time do you spend looking at a screen in your free time? […]