For those who long to be home, for those who do not conform to the values and worldview of this present evil age, for the exiles, the sojourners, the strangers of this world… God is encouraging us to live as exiles here on earth.

In Genesis 33, we are going to see old habits come back up in this Jacob’s life and in it, we see a picture of the Christian life. Sometimes, there is obedience and faith and walking by the Spirit in the power of God… And then other times, there is...

Jacob is at the ultimate crossroads and something has to change… what does he do? He prays. He wrestles with God until God blesses him. And we see the truth of the passage. If anything in our lives is going to be God-transformed, if anything in our...

We see God showing up to Jacob, his son, his family, the man through whom the lineage of Christ will be, and he says to him, “Go. Go back to your homeland.” And that very call is of the original call which is to go and I will bless you SO THAT you...

If I could just go back to high school to focus on school and getting good grades. If I could just go back and not date that person. If I could just go back and not watch Napoleon Dynamite. Or future, if I could just get that job. If I could just have...

The disciples just lost all of the joy they had as they were walking with Jesus. If you look at v.41, they disbelieved for joy. Why? Jesus just died. Their Messiah, the one they have been waiting on for hundreds of years, the supposed Savior of the...

It was June of the year of our Lord 2015. Leah and I had just gotten married and were coming back from out honeymoon, when it all hit me like a jackhammer to the spleen. My stomach picked up a hitchhiker because I drank some of the water down there in...

We all want to be loved. And I think if we all had the same definition, we would say that we all want to be blessed. Compiled from all of the references in the Bible, the word blessed means the happy state of those who find purpose and fulfillment in...

Imagine staying the night in a home you do not know, where little creatures go bump in the night and where sounds are super scary… This is what happened to Leah and I one night when we babysat for a certain family, I won’t say any names. I have told...

God will allow circumstances outside of our ability to affect us: maybe our health starts to decline, maybe our marriage is in a place of constant stress right now and all we can seem to do is argue, maybe we have kids who make pickets signs after...