As modern people we find ourselves caught in a dilemma: we resist the notions of spirits, demons, and personified evil, but many have experiences with dark and destructive expressions not easily reduced to merely human peculiarities. Do the accounts...

To our modern ears there may be fewer issues more confusing and less relevant than Jesus’s frequent dustups with the religious elites over proper observance of the Sabbath. But perhaps that’s because we can’t appreciate what’s really behind its...

A highlight of our Global Missions Fair events, Josiah Bancroft, GMR missionary and former co-Pastor of GMR, will teach from John 3:16-17 and John 20:91-23: the disciples sent out in love with no condemnation, peace from Jesus, the work of the Spirit...

The series we’re in is about what it means to follow. But lest we reduce His call to mere technique, crucial to persisting in his call to follow is knowing who precisely is this One who calls us.

Rare is the life that is not confronted with the occasion for forgiveness–whether needing it or extending it. Despite its place in our cultural heritage, some reasonably argue our capacity for it is “fading”. Others concede new foundations for...

We’re moving through Mark’s Gospel asking the simple question: what does it mean to follow Jesus? In the beginning of chapter 1, we saw something of what it doesn’t mean, namely to admire him. Late in chapter 1, we discover Jesus praying in...

Of all the commands Jesus spoke, perhaps the most misunderstood was the call to follow Him. The misunderstanding stemmed from a similar misunderstanding of who he was, what he was coming to do, and what following him would, and would not, require. For...

Life is full of disappointments--hopes and expectations dashed. With each we feel the metaphorical wind knocked out of us. And then we either look for ways to get back up or resign ourselves to hoping for nothing. Israel had been called to rebuild its...

Some efforts to rebuild require something more than--something prior to--simply restoring what’s been lost due to time or neglect. The foundation of a project may need a new foundation in those who undertake it. Haggai is holding up a mirror to Israel...

In the book of Haggai, rebuilding the temple after decades in exile was a sign that God’s people desired to recenter their lives around God. In Haggai 2, God speaks again through his prophet Haggai as they rebuild, this time encouraging God’s people...