Today's word of encouragement: You will indeed find your worth & identity apart from Christ. But it is the grace of God that draws you near again, reminding you of your infinite worth on account of Christ’s work.

Today's word of encouragement: “…you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.”

Today's word of encouragement: You are a child of God through faith because you were baptized into Christ Jesus. That objective event is what you can root your assurance in.

Today's word of encouragement comes from a sermon I preached on 6/20/21 at Hope Evangelical Free Church.

Today's word of encouragement comes from a sermon I preached on 5/23/21 at Hope Evangelical Free Church during Pentecost Sunday.

I will be taking a little break during baseball season. I don't know when/if I will return. But I've enjoyed getting to do this thus far.

Today's word of encouragement: It is not through our strength, but through our weaknesses, our struggles and sins, we find God; or rather, He finds us.

Today's word of encouragement: The promise of the gospel predates the sting of the law. We can walk forward not in order to keep God’s love, but because there is nothing we can do to forfeit it.

Today's word of encouragement: Jesus redeemed us that the blessing of one tribe, the Jews, would now be the blessing for all tribes into one new family, the family of God. This is what you are now part of, by grace, through faith in His Son. Rest in that today.

Today's word of encouragement: “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”

Today's word of encouragement: we have broken our end of the covenant with God, but “ ‘He himself bore our sins’ in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; ‘by his wounds you have been healed.’ ”