Maybe our cultural moment isn’t unique, but how many indicators point to a culture-wide sense of overwhelm? Why are we so polarized, so lonely, so addicted? And, given all that, why do we still persist? Why live? Israel has known overwhelm in its...

Guest Speaker: Pastor Yobani Alas. Grace Mills River and Honduras Fountain of Life has had the privilege of collaborating with pastor Yobani Alas for the past 15 years. In 1993 he started a church in Honduras with six people. Since that time they have...

We skip ahead this week in the book of Isaiah to the moment when he received his summons to speak a prophetic-- and off-putting--word. What does his experience, vividly recounted, mean to tell us about God, ourselves, and what it’s like to have been...

What can an ancient word of prophetic challenge speak to a modern world? More than we might imagine--more than we might prefer. But the same voice that issues a stern challenge also offers a stronger hope--and that hope is timeless.

Jesus tells a famous parable, now ancient to us, with two storylines that continue to play out in every era, sometimes within the same soul at different times. But He also offers a third storyline that makes this parable not just poignant, but too...

While receiving Christ is utterly free, following Him is not without cost. But when you hear Him say what it costs you, you find that not to follow Him is even costlier. Why so?

In this world you will have tribulation. That’s Jesus promise (John 16:33). Some of that trouble will arise from forces expressly arrayed against those who are in Him? What then? What response does that call for?

While we speak of the bible as having a kind of authority, this parable of Jesus helps us think of it in terms of its productivity--what it can produce, and in what kind of heart the yield God intends is possible. He loves nothing more than to see...

The only thing harder than learning new things is unlearning old things. Jesus was met almost always with resistance whenever He introduced what was new with His coming. Everyone who encounters Him at first resists--until they see how what He’s out to...

One consistent thread running through human history has been the debate--at times cool and academic, at others fierce and violent--over the meaning and value of labor. Entwined in the same debate is the question of humanity’s meaning and value...