11Read Romans 5:17. Have you ever regifted a present? Or have you received a gift you were pretty sure had been regifted? Whether you’ve given or received a regifted present, it probably felt awkward; after...

Read Galatians 4:4. I remember cutting strips of red and green construction paper. With each cut, the expectation for Christmas grew. We turned those strips of paper into a Christmas chain – each link representing...

27 And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep...

On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine— the best of meats and the finest of wines. 7 On this mountain he...

Everybody has a Rule of Life; but not everybody has an intentional Rule of Life. We all have things we do every day, every week, every season, and every year. However, so many of those...

24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and...

READ: Galatians 5:16-25 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit...

In 2009, Simon Sinek wrote a book entitled Start With Why that eventually became a bestseller and he gave a TED Talk that now has almost 40,000,000 views. Sinek proposed that we often approach life...

If you had one question to ask Jesus, what would it be? Some might ask him about evil in the world and why he allows it to continue. Others might ask about their future. What...

The cultural moment we live in can inhibit us from seeing the beauty and benefits of those who have walked before us. Throughout the history of Christianity, there have been a number of practices that...

The disciples asked Jesus a lot of questions. One of the questions Jesus responded to and answered was their question, “how should we pray?” His provocative, subversive, transformational answer, known as The Lord’s Prayer, is...

I hit “submit” and immediately regretted my decision. I had just signed myself up to run a half-marathon. 13.1 miles of running torture. At the time I wasn’t much of a runner, but I wanted...