Scripture: John

Jesus is not only part of an old story. He is alive and working in us today. He is God, the light of God’s glory, and the One who holds all things together. He is greater than Moses, and everything God has done points us toward Him. Through…

There is a war going on, and James tells us plainly where it starts. It does not begin on battlefields or in courtrooms. It begins in our own hearts, in the quiet place where we decide what we love most. When strife and fighting break out among us,…

From the very beginning, before the first bird sang or the first river ran to the sea, God had a purpose in mind when he made us. He formed us like a craftsman shapes clay, carefully and with great attention, breathing life into our nostrils. We are made…

We open the pages of Revelation and find ourselves standing between two worlds. On one side shines the Lamb, Jesus Christ, crowned and pure, with a people who follow him wherever he leads. On the other side crouches the beast, the dragon, and a fallen city drunk on…

A cup is a simple thing, defined more by what it carries than by what it is made of. This morning we gather around two cups. The first is the one Jesus held in the upper room, the cup of the new covenant, poured out in blood for…

Today we turn our eyes to a woman named Rizpa, a quiet figure nearly hidden in the pages of the Old Testament. She was a concubine of King Saul, and she had little power and no voice in the world around her. Yet when her two sons were…

James 3 gives us a map this morning, and we do well to study it carefully. True wisdom is not loud or proud. It shows itself in how we treat the people around us, even the ones who are hard to love. We fear God, we trust Him,…

Easter is the greatest story ever told, and today we gather to remember it together. Christ is risen, and that changes everything. We sometimes pour so much energy into Christmas, but Easter deserves just as much of our hearts. The resurrection is not a tale on a page.…