Hospitality - So Much Bigger Than a Meal
While being friendly to new folks at church is important and right, hospitality has deeper heart outworkings than only that. It changes how we engage with one another and particularly strangers in our day-to-day lives.
For Those Being Transformed Into Christ’s Likeness
Here are some resolutions you might consider for 2025. No one will want to do all these things or even most of them! These are ideas to stimulate your planning.
"Scrooging" Christmas and the Rescuing Righteousness of God
Scrooge had every worldly thing he needed, but he was spiritually bankrupt and miserable. In Dickens’ allegory, God comes to rescue him through ghostly messengers.
From Isaiah’s perspective, light is not just decorative but symbolic. The darkness of evil and ignorance characterize our world. Look at what was happening at the time of Jesus’ birth...
"Who am I, and What does God have for me to do?" (part 2)
We concluded our discussion in the first article of this series realizing that we can find some clues to life’s questions, at least in part, by looking at God’s and our stories in an allegorical frame of mind. As we do so, we find that we are...
"Who am I, and What does God have for me to do?"
...to my questions of “Who am I?” or “What Does God Have for Me to Do? - some of the answer to these questions comes when we understand God’s story and our part in it. In other words, it may be helpful to consider these questions through an...
In one of your everyday moments, if you were to look over to the corner of the room and imagine God sitting there, what expression would be on His face?
What are the wild, disordered things we worry about? What wilderness do we wish would be tamed and made safe?
Have you ever noticed that there is tension in the Advent season? Sure, there is tension because the “most wonderful time of the year” can be the busiest and most stressful time of year, but there’s another kind of tension.
Very appropriately, we call Christmas the “season of light.” This title recalls how the Old Testament heralded our Savior’s coming as a light of hope dawning in the darkness of sin and death...
