We’re heading back into fall, and we can expect to continue our coexistence with the novel coronavirus. Of course, we continue to pray and hope for treatments and a vaccine, but I’d like to explore what dependence on Christ looks like during this most unusual time. The Peace of Christ in the Community God’s Word…
“Where do you go to church?” she asked. I remember the chill of the water as I stood there, waist-deep in the pool while our kids splashed around us, wishing there was a way to not answer her question. To be fair, I had asked her the same one just a few moments before. I’m…
“But ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all of these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done…
My husband and I are planting a church in northwest Denver. As a church planter, I cannot fathom all of the residual effects the novel coronavirus will have on our society, but I do see some excellent learnings for the church in it already. If you have been around a church at all, most likely…
On a cold, late December night over a decade ago, I walked behind the thrifted couch in the living room of my first home and began to tug at a corner of the bedraggled carpet. With much effort and accompanying dust, that initial corner broke free of the tack strip. That first pull became a…
“Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:4-5 ESV)…