Grace Mills River

Every life is in some measure lived by faith--placing our trust, our hope, our aspirations on notions whose full reality we can only see through a glass darkly. Faith is therefore an everyday thing. What then does it look like to live an everyday...

This week we find ourselves in between two separate sermon series. We just

completed a series on Proverbs, and next week we begin a new series on the book of James.

Since we are in between series, and since this is Labor Day weekend, we thought...

Wisdom takes a lifetime to find. We’ve spent twenty weeks in search of it. What closing thought can we bring to a lifelong pursuit? The value of wisdom comes down to not just its insight into reality, and how that helps you both find and navigate...

It may be the first emotion we exhibit as children. Frustration in getting what we need gives rise to the anger that means to put an end to our waiting. And we find it an effective tool to get what we want. We know anger to be problematic. But what...

Often our foolish choices are a function of nothing more than our ignorance. But more often than we might admit that folly proceeds from the one thing that is the greatest obstacle to wisdom: pride. What is pride, really? Where does it lurk? Why do we...

Which is harder to believe: that God exists or that He intervenes in His own way in the affairs of humanity? The belief that God is active in history is typically referred to as the doctrine of providence--literally “seeing forward” but more so...

Wisdom for justice.

We speak euphemistically when we say we’re “green” with envy. In truth it feels more like something we’d associate with a darker hue. Whether of those we despise or those we admire--even those we’re in close relationship with--the experience of envy...

The church is often criticized for an alleged obsession with sex. But, as others have written, if sex involves both the bringing forth of life and the nurturing of relationship--no less than life and love--how can the church be silent or indifferent...

Everything in our reach is like a garden: something (or someone) to be tended to, cultivated, nurtured. That’s true of what’s both external and internal to us; it all calls for stewardship. What does it mean to be diligent in our care of such, and...