How do we stay grounded in a world unhinged from the truth? How do we find peace when life seems unsteady? What hope awaits the faithful believer? Is there a better way to live as Christians than what has become “typical” in American Christian...

Make the choice right now.   Right now. Before 2021 even begins, make a conscious decision: I will choose joy in whatever comes. It's easy to choose joy when all is well, it's harder to choose joy when things aren't. But we can be...

Have you ever been homesick? You know what that feels like. The pit in your stomach, the weight in your chest, the longing to be back with who you know and what you know. As Christians, we live with a sense of homesickness. We want to be with...

Waiting.... waiting.... waiting....   Even just seeing the word might stress some of us out. Waiting! I don't know many people who would say they really love to wait. Think about being put on hold during a phone call. Think about the days of...

There is a saying we use when we feel the time has come for us to get something done ourselves: "I'm taking matters into my own hands." Often, we say this when someone else who was responsible isn't doing things as quickly as we...

For the fourth time God will promise Abram that his descendants will be too many to count. Four times God has been saying it without Abram seeing it. Finally, Abram basically says, "Can you prove it? How do I know this?" God delivers. In...

Genesis 14 introduces a rather mysterious yet important character throughout the Bible. His name is Melchizedek, and well, we really don't know that much about him. But he's mentioned again in Psalm 110, and then again in Hebrews 7 where he...

We took a break from our Genesis series to spend time in Romans 5 + 6. We'll get back to Genesis next week!

It's hard to leave places you know to go to places you don't know. It's even harder to leave the people you know to go to people you don't know.  And yet this week, we walk with the father of the faith as he trades the known for...

A group of people set out to build a city and a tower to make a name for themselves. God wants them to scatter in faith to multiply His image. They want to stay together, comfortable, and safe. God wants them to live lives making His name famous. They...