Take Time for What Matters
March 12, 2023
How often do we rush past people on the street, at work, at school, in the hallways of the church building, or even in our own homes, and...
Finding True Love in God
March 8, 2023
God’s love is true love. Our passions, desires, and loves become disordered when we attempt to love apart from God. In order to love...
Hungry, But Not Hurried
March 5, 2023
After 40 days in the wilderness with nothing to eat, Luke says Jesus, “was hungry.” When we are hungry, literally or metaphorically,...
Waiting (Postexilic and Intertestamental Periods)
March 1, 2023
What Happened in the Old Testament and How It Leads to Jesus
Comparison Can Lead to Pride and Boasting
February 26, 2023
Paul’s critics “measured themselves by one another and compared themselves with one another.” This made them proud and arrogant....
Returned (Ezra and Nehemiah)
February 22, 2023
What Happened in the Old Testament and How It Leads to Jesus
Comparison Can Lead to Self-Loathing
February 19, 2023
Paul was constantly compared to others and many found Paul to be lacking. It would have been easy for Paul to participate in this preacher...
Exiled (Assyria and Babylon)
February 15, 2023
What Happened in the Old Testament and How It Leads to Jesus
Comparison Can Lead to Self-Deception
February 12, 2023
When the church is what the church is supposed to be, we see others at their worst. We see them when they are struggling and when they...