Seeing that we live between the “already” and the “not yet,” how do we wait on God without losing our minds? We wait by setting first things as first, recalling the character of God, and committing ourselves to the path of the pilgrim, knowing that...

We are in the wilderness. We are exposed. We grumble. But God is gracious. He takes the

judgment we deserve upon Himself and, in His blood, we find water.

It is only when we are brought to experience the free, unmerited grace of God for us in Christ that our legalistic, self-justifying instincts can be overcome. The only way we are ever truly going to come to love our neighbor as ourselves is if we...

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Seeing that we live between the “already” and the “not yet,” we graciously wait by dwelling in His presence, gazing upon the beauty of the Lord and inquiring of His name. We rest in Him, the Sufficiency of all things, knowing that His past...

We are tempted to tether our joy to our performance in one way or another, but in so doing we doom our happiness to rise and fall with our good and bad days. Instead, Jesus wants us to settle our joy into something deeper, something more stable—the...

Christ’s arrival has initiated the last days and the appointed time has grown very short. The harvest season of gospel ministry is upon us, but the final judgment is coming. We have been sent into the field as His ambassadors bringing the message of...

Jesus sends us all out on mission. But if we are to see any fruit in the field, we must go out in reliance on Him and as reflections of Him. We must be ready to die in love for God and neighbor.

In three encounters with three different men, Jesus shows us here what taking up our cross actually entails. On first read, His words sound harsh and uncaring, but as we look deeper we come to see that He is truly trying to set us free!