Grace Mills River

When you believe that Jesus is Lord of the whole universe, how does that affect the way we think of what else has kinds of authority?

The greatest argument for the truth of Christianity is your own life. Scary, no? But how you understand your identity and purpose, the boundless mercies of God, and the freedom and potency of godliness are all of greater persuasiveness than the most...

Individualism is the air we breathe. Expressing our truest selves is the highest virtue of our day. Another strange part of believing in Jesus is that who we are becoming as a people is as crucial, if not more, than who we are becoming as individuals...

Overview: What we most need from each other in this season we may find increasingly difficult to offer. Why? It could be that what we’re most feeding on during this season may be the least nourishing to us and to who we are to one another. We are...

God in his holiness has made us in his own image, designed to be and live holy, pure, loving, obedient lives. Sin (“anti-holiness”) has wrecked this image, but the holy sacrifice of Jesus has re-made us into the Father’s holy image and now calls and...

“Man is born for trouble, as [surely as] sparks fly upward,” says the book of Job. As in that storyline so in every human storyline a question surfaces: how, in a world arguably originating from God and overseen by God, do we face the inevitable...

“Alienation—that feeling of not quite belonging—is integral to Christian identity,” says Tara Isabella Burton. Peter’s letter to the churches in Asia Minor begins with the theme of how one is essentially an “exile”--an outsider, an alien, one seen as...

We are not all called to serve the Lord in the same way, but we're all called to serve the Lord.

Jesus provides all we need to serve him, even while we do so imperfectly. He is faithful when we are not.

Saul sought to wound the church--to eradicate it. In time He would need to be healed by the very one He sought to persecute. Blindness of the eyes would be the first thing in need of healing, but only as preparation for an even deeper blindness to be...

Overview: The Book of Acts is essentially Luke Part 2, showing us that Jesus came back from the dead in a glorified body and ascended to the Throne of Heaven where he is perpetually our Prophet, Priest and King as he births and grows His Church...