Grace Mills River

Sometimes imagining the alternative to a view we hold can sharpen our thinking about that view. It can also help us feel the weight and worth of that view were it deemed to be untrue. Paul takes a curious approach to a discussion of the resurrection...

We celebrate the resurrection to great fanfare on one day a year. But its truth is meant to feed us, form us, and maybe sometimes fight with us at all times. What does it mean to wrestle with belief in the gospel of the resurrection?

This worship service will call our attention to the original Sunday after Easter to help us grapple with our own. We'll hear the story of a most famous skeptic turned faithful follower of the risen Christ. Thomas' doubt is echoed ad nauseum...

When an injury has impaired some ordinary function, it is regained only through learning that function again. In a season when our love may have been impaired, we’ve needed a bit of therapy in what is the nature and importance of love. For love we...

Of all the features of love Paul enumerates what he describes in this passage may be the most counter-intuitive. In light of that, it may also be what most requires divine intervention to see it birthed in us.

Even with an end to this season apparently in sight, the last year wears heavily upon many. It’s hard to say whether our more regretful moments were caused by this year or were only provoked by it. That is to say, in our weakest moments of lashing out...

Biblical love is not self-seeking; it doesn’t make demands, or seek its own advantage. If our hearts mirror our self-absorbed age, we need the power of the gospel and the work of the Holy Spirit, which spell judgment on a life centered on the self.

Love is hard. It’s so often beyond what we naturally choose. One thing far more natural to us is caricaturing: making and acting on distorted images. Not the whimsical ones we get at amusement parks, but those that diminish, dismiss, and defame--and...

There’s an aptitude we begin learning at birth, must cultivate in order to mature, and which we inevitably practice for the entirety of our lives. And yet it has the greatest potential to darken our worlds and our stories unless something else keeps...

Has anything so central to our identity, like love, been so threatened by our circumstances? Albert Camus’s insight into what pandemics do to a people was prescient. We are liable to turn inward. And while we’ve seen plenty of exceptions, societal...