We want hope, but we want to know it isn’t empty—especially when other powers seem to have the final say over our lives. In Ephesians 1:20–21, Paul points to God raising Jesus from the dead and seating him above every rule and authority, but do we live as if we believe that?
Greg helps us to think about what Jesus does for us through His death and Resurrection.
We can be inclined to delay approaching God, too busy obsessing on our doubts to come, much like Thomas in John 20. But Thomas did come and so should we.
Excitement will only get us so far. To fulfill the mission of this life, we need more.
You think the picnic went great until you start to itch and realize you brought ticks home with you. What tick bites—those sneaky sins whose venom is already inside before you notice—do you have? Those are the ones Jesus came to rescue us from.
Pastor Tim reflects on 9/11’s anniversary and then Greg helps us think about the final question in the New City Catechism (“What Hope Does Everlasting Life Hold for Us?”).
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“Of What Advantage to Us is Christ’s Ascension?”).
Pastor Tim helps us think about the next question in the New City Catechism (“What does Christ’s resurrection mean for us?”).
We’ve all set out to pursue what we think God wants, only to watch the road curve in ways that make no sense. How do you trust Him when His path seems to undo the very promise He gave? In Genesis 22, Abraham faces exactly that moment as God calls him to offer Isaac.
We’ve all held something we couldn’t restore—a plan, a relationship, a season of life that’s gone dry—and kept clenching it anyway, as if sheer will might put flesh back on the bone. Naomi knew that feeling: she went away full and came back empty, and the Book of Ruth shows what God does with that kind of emptiness.