In church world, Sabbath gets brought up a lot.

Life just seems so rushed, doesn’t it? Everything we do seems to carry with it a hurried pace, a to-do list that feels too long, and never enough time in a day to get it all done. We live in a world where everything is rushed. Is it possible to...

Have you ever wondered what the meaning of any given event in your life is about - no matter how big, or small, or random it might feel? Is there a bigger picture in which it all fits?

The Christmas Story doesn’t begin with perfection but redemption. There isn’t a greater example of that than when David and Bathsheba’s story ends up in the family tree of Jesus.

One of the most interesting names that we find in the family tree of Jesus is the name Rahab, and not just Rahab but Rahab the prostitute. Which leads us to the question: What does her story have to do with Christmas?

Tucked quietly at the beginning of Matthew’s Gospel is a list of names that tells an untold side of Christmas. A family tree filled with stories most kingdoms would hide, and the names of five people most ancient genealogies would never include...

This week is Thanksgiving, a day when the entire nation pauses to celebrate gratitude. So here’s the question: when it comes to gratitude, where would you rank it among the virtues? Where does Jesus rank it?

It’s so easy to carry things that we don’t need to carry. At the same time, we’re called to carry one another’s burdens. How do we do that? If we’re not careful, anxiety can spread like a wildfire.

One of the most subtle, yet powerful sources of chronic anxiety is your inner critic. We often criticize ourselves to a standard that we would never hold someone else to. Why is the inner critic so powerful, and how do we find freedom from it’s clutches?

Have you ever thought about this question - What do I think I believe that I don’t really believe?  This may be a confusing question, but when we spend time really searching what we call our “false beliefs,” we are able to identify a huge source of...