One Loaf Left. Its relatively easy to trust God when things are smooth and life is sweet. But when things get hard and life goes sour, it becomes difficult to entrust ourselves to the Lord. Maybe you’re struggling to trust the Lord today, struggling to entrust your job to him, your children to him, your […]

Christ the Mediator. Last time in our Foundations series, we saw that we have relationship with God through his covenant. But who mediates God’s covenant? Who represents man before the Lord? How can I come to God? How can I being a miserable sinner stand before the holy and infinite God? The answer is Jesus. […]

A Sign From Heaven. Sometimes the road gets tough and we need comfort. Sometimes we are making a mess of things and need to be challenged. In God’s wise and manifold providence, as he unfolds to us his covenant, we learn that God’s covenant is a two-edged sword. God offers life but he also threatens […]

Bread In the Wilderness. In the Old Testament, the wilderness wanderings were an experience that profoundly shaped the identity of God’s people. This was a generation marked by wandering in the wilderness. Do you feel like that generation today? You’re hungry, weak, exhausted, not exactly sure where you’re going. Most of us know something of […]

All Things Well. Do you ever feel lost in your own world? Maybe during the Coronavirus you’ve felt this way because of the isolation and not being able to interact with people well. For deaf or mute people, there is a whole world they are cut off from. Being deaf and mute, to some degree, […]

Nothing is more painful than rejection. It’s painful for a young man to be rejected by a woman. It’s painful for a woman to be rejected by her peers. It’s painful for a father to be rejected by his children. It’s painful especially when you are in trouble and ask for help from a friend […]

Do you ever feel dirty? Why might that be? Sometimes you just need to take a shower to get clean. But what if the dirt is deeper than that, where doesn’t matter how many times your shower, you still feel dirty because you feel guilty? Maybe its because of things you’ve done or things done […]

Tradition is a powerful shaping influence. But is tradition good or bad? If we keep useful traditions it can give us a sense of identity and continuity of the past. This is a good thing. But it’s bad when we take man made traditions and elevate them to the level of scripture or even worse, […]

One thing is certain. Death. John Milton said that ever since man’s first disobedience, humanity has struggled with the reality that sooner or later, you and I are going to die. It’s the great equalizer. Nothing is more clear than our passage today. Jesus was dead. His disciples grieved because they hoped he was the […]

What do you think of when you hear the word Coronavirus? If you scroll through social media you will get vastly different answers. Crisis, overreaction, fear, panic, complacency. In this seething cauldron of different opinions, what does it mean to us? The church plays a prophetic role in a time like this and the church […]