Much of what we call "love" is actually self-love. How can we shift from our natural bent toward selfishness in order to love as Christ has first loved us?

Much of what we call "love" is actually self-love. How can we shift from our natural bent toward selfishness in order to love as Christ has first loved us?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow penned the words to the familiar carol, "I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day," in the midst of tremendous personal heartache; yet he clung to the hope that Christmas meant God had written Himself into our story in order to...

Woven into the Nativity Story are three people who missed Jesus for different reasons. The King came, but they weren't prepared to receive him. Discover who these people are, why they missed Jesus, and how we do the same things today.

More and more research is revealing a shocking fact about American Christians: not that many of them have Christian beliefs. Many barely know what the Bible actually says. Many more have simply conformed their worldview to that of the prevailing...

It is our natural tendency to crave power and control over our lives and even over others. We are so addicted to power, we grow frustrated and angry when someone or something jeopardizes our sense of control. But this idolatry of power is killing us.

Message from Andrew Graff on November 26, 2017

In some ways, the coming of the Messiah to Jerusalem at Passover was exactly what the Jews expected. In other ways, the coming Jesus as Messiah was the furthest thing from what anyone had imagined. They wanted peace, but didn't really see their need...

Whatever else we do, we are called to faithfully invest in the people and opportunities that have the best chance of giving us a return on the Gospel that Jesus has entrusted to us.

The story of Zacchaeus is so familiar we might miss the point altogether. Yes, it's about a wee little man who wanted to see Jesus; but even more so, it's about a Savior who wanted to see and transform this notorious sinner by sheer grace.