Grace Mills River

What if anguish and adoration are not opposites? What if the former is an expression of the latter, while the latter holds the former together?

We feel more acutely in this bewildering season what is true of every season: anguish, anger--anything but adoration. But adoration is at the heart of what it means to believe in the One who was God Incarnate, and to adore Him is, among other...

Daniel is given a message with eyes on both a nearer and more distant historical horizon. Jesus knows that message well, and sees it coming to pass in and through His own life. But ancient as those two historical data points are, the message has...

Modern people, across all sorts of divides, retain some belief in the world having a spiritual character to it. What does this passage suggest that character is? The book of Daniel ends with one last word on God’s greatest purposes--purposes which...

With the election in our rear-view mirror, we still ask the question that is relevant: now what? After all this nation has been through in its turbulent political season--now protracted for an indeterminate period--how shall we then live?

How did we get here? It is the question in the minds if not in the lips of many in this season of national unrest. Even if we knew how it came to this, is there any way out of it? The question is timely--and also ancient. Daniel 9 offers some...

Long before followers of Jesus began wondering when the Lord would come to complete what he’d begun in Christ, those whose hope was in God imagined the end of an enduring era and a beginning of an everlasting one. Prophets like Daniel added to those...

The idiom about the writing on the wall--that something unwelcome is about to happen--stems from Daniel 5. This story of God’s judgment on a prideful and idolatrous king should give us pause to consider the story being written about our own lives. But...

Few if any of us will ever face a lethal threat from a despotic, Middle-Eastern potentate. But we will all face a moment in which we are forced to make a choice on the basis of what we most fear, which goes hand in hand with what we most desire. What...

Human authority and God’s authority: how do they relate? Is God pulling all the strings or hanging back to watch? Or something else? How does any of it apply to our moment--or even to a new pastor among us?