Death is part of the human experience, period. No matter who you are or how powerful you become, in the words of John Calvin, “death reigns with a violent tyranny”. In view of death’s reality, the Scriptures give Christians freedom to mourn and reason...

In week two of this new sermon series on being a church, we focus on some of the ways in which we can build one another up when we are apart from each other during the week. When we walk back out through the red doors of our building, our commitment...

One of the most fundamental duties that Christians have in relation to other Christians is to regularly attend the gatherings of the church. This is one of the reasons that the Scripture don’t present our weekly gathering as being something that’s...

This familiar psalm shows us that much of Christianity has to do with embracing our sheep-ness; our inability, our weakness and our perpetual need. This is how we get to the place where we can embrace the words of David as our own, “I shall not want.”...

Baptism is one of the primary ways in which a person expresses his commitment to Jesus and to his people. The ordinance is a reminder to us that Christianity isn’t merely a privatized possession, it’s a shared public profession. In baptism, new...

How do we engage with the Lord in the midst of our suffering? Especially the suffering we’ve brought on ourselves by our own sin? David's voices an answer to these questions as he flees from his own son, Absalom.

We all know what it’s like to be knocked back by news. To be stunned and uncertain. To be internally uneasy. The reality of those hardships is what makes the hopefulness of this psalm a favorite for God’s people. In it, the psalmist invites us to...

In this chapter, Paul reminds the Colossian church about the implications of Jesus's death and resurrection. Having been buried with Christ, believers are to put off the old self. And having been risen with Christ, they are to put on the new...