We often think fulfillment is found in places far off from the Father. In our wandering, we enjoy moments of freedom but soon find ourselves enslaved. When we come to ourselves and return home, we find God more merciful and kind than we could ever...

God loves us and want to establish an abundant life in us through Him, now and for eternity. While we may respond in any one of 4 ways to the Gospel message at different times in our lives, God is consistently patient and faithful.

All of our activity—busy as we are, diverse as it is—has these same basic goals at the bottom: I want to be valued; I want to be pursued; and I want to be celebrated. Our attempts to get these things apart from God lead us into all manner of sin and...

Following Christ will cost us everything and nothing at the same time. We have to let the world go but we become heirs of it in Him. We take up our cross, but therein find our life. His grace is free, but it is not cheap. Jesus calls us to count...

Good things can keep us from the best thing. The gifts of God can keep us from the kingdom of God. Those things we are unwilling to surrender to God in love and trust will ultimately be the instruments of our undoing. But if we can lay them in His...

We all want the sort of joy that is impervious to circumstance. But, in all of our attempts to secure it for ourselves, we inevitably end up making costly reductions and distorting reality. As such, whatever joy we do find feels false. If we would...

God is our only hope and help. There are no other anchors save the Eternal God. None could ever suffice, save our Master, Jesus, who gave himself up for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

We often make invitations and dinner parties all about us. We accept those invitations that suit us. We extend invitations to people we like or extract some benefit from. But Jesus says that we rob ourselves when we live this way. We miss the very...

God, through the Holy Spirit, has called us out of our former life of darkness and into communal life of loving service, for the maturing of God’s church. But this doesn’t come easily; this requires regular renewal of our minds to put on the new self.

In a culture that is always vying for the places of honor—to be seen and praised—Jesus calls us into faithful obscurity. He asks us to sit in the forgotten places with the assurance that He will remember. Lowering ourselves lifts a ladder to the...