Jesus Christ alone
Jesus was crucified, and He hung on the cross until death — alone. He understands loneliness. He understands sadness. He understands suffering.
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A Holy Week identity crisis
If we truly examine our words and actions, we are forced to admit that we have sometimes echoed Peter’s words: “I know not the man!”
Save the offering
Online giving may soon make passing the plate during Sunday morning worship services practically obsolete. But at what theological cost?
Love won in St. Louis
What does love look like? A husband and a wife who lay down their lives for each other. Christ on the cross, dying to redeem His Bride.
Let there be light
Beginning with its epic appearance in the opening verses of Genesis, light is a powerful image throughout the pages of Scripture.
We shall not want: On Psalm 23
The words of the familiar psalm are more than poetry. They are a confession of faith: With Christ as our Shepherd, we want for nothing.
Love keeps no record of rights
We do a nice thing and immediately tuck it away in our mental archives for later. “Wow,” we say to ourselves, “would you look at that!” And then we do. Often.
Where moth and rust decay
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.”
When faith matters most
When the unimaginable happens, faith in Jesus is the only thing that will help us through.
Embracing the church generation gap
Instead of just bridging the church generation gap, what if we embraced it? From both sides?
There’s no theology like snow theology
Snow falls, and the ugliness of an unsightly landscape disappears. Dirt, decay, dilapidation — all are erased by two or three inches of newly fallen snow.
The people that in darkness sat
As we “sit in darkness” together during these dark, cold days of winter, the words of a favorite Epiphany hymn bring us comfort and hope.