After the ascension, the apostles and believers take their first steps as Jesus's Church. Though their situation is one of uncertainty (they are waiting for the Holy Spirit and they are down one apostle), they respond in faith by turning to God...

The Bible isn’t primarily a search engine for our spiritual inquiries. It’s a historical story that has one star actor, Jesus, through whom, God is reconciling the world to himself. In fact, all of the Bible is about him, or building up the storyline...

As we commemorated the blending of our two churches together we were encouraged to remember, that while it was the planning and prayers of our church leadership teams, that became the means to our churches blending together, even more so, it was the...

On this Sunday when we shared in the Lord’s Supper, we drew upon question 43 of the New City Catechism which answers the question, “What is the Lord’s Supper?” with the reminder that in it we have a remembrance, a celebration of God’s presence, an...

The gospel trains us to be zealous for good works in front of the world. How we see the world is informed is how we see ourselves our status before God.

Scripture exhorts us to pray without ceasing, but how do we avoid falling into dull patterns of memorized scripts and lifeless lists of requests? When asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, Jesus established a framework to shape all of our...

Scripture exhorts us to pray without ceasing, but how do we avoid falling into dull patterns of memorized scripts and lifeless lists of requests? When asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, Jesus established a framework to shape all of our...

Scripture exhorts us to pray without ceasing, but how do we avoid falling into dull patterns of memorized scripts and lifeless lists of requests? When asked by his disciples to teach them to pray, Jesus established a framework to shape all of our...

What do you do when violence and evil has thoroughly corrupted community life? Is there hope or is the situation beyond redemption? Those are the sobering questions that echo to us from the pages of the Bible in this next episode in the Abraham story.

After God’s appearance to him in chapter seventeen, Abraham is now exceedingly convinced that he and Sarah will have a child. However, Sarah, who wasn’t part of that special moment with God is less certain that the inconceivable will become true. So...