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October 07, 2024

Foreigners at War

One of the amazing perks to my job is that I have the opportunity to bring people around the world to share both good...
September 30, 2024

Stumbling or Standing?

We continue our series Exiles in Our Land: Standing as God’s people, with God’s people. Today those two parts of our...
September 23, 2024

Purified and Born Again

Gloria and I have a door leading from our house out to the garage. On that door are lots of marks at different heights...
September 16, 2024

Prophets, Angels, and You

We’re studying 1 Peter, in a series called Exiles in Our Land. We saw last week that when people experience new birth...
September 09, 2024

New Birth, New Love

What’s a hobby? Something you do for fun. Sometimes people ask me, What are your hobbies? And I say, I like to read....
October 07, 2024

Foreigners at War

One of the amazing perks to my job is that I have the opportunity to bring people around the world to share both good...
September 30, 2024

Stumbling or Standing?

We continue our series Exiles in Our Land: Standing as God’s people, with God’s people. Today those two parts of our...
September 23, 2024

Purified and Born Again

Gloria and I have a door leading from our house out to the garage. On that door are lots of marks at different heights...
September 16, 2024

Prophets, Angels, and You

We’re studying 1 Peter, in a series called Exiles in Our Land. We saw last week that when people experience new birth...

Hope for the Hopeless

The trash in our subdivision gets picked up on Tuesday. So on Monday night it’s common to see trucks drive slowly down the street to see what kinds...

When Your Enemy is Yourself

Introduction We come to the end of the first section of Isaiah 40–55. What a journey it’s been so far! The audience is the exiled community from...

The Fall of Empire

Introduction As we continue our series Isaiah: Yahweh Alone is God, we come to a text that features the fall of empire. The historical empire whose...

False vs. True Religion

Introduction Around the same time that Isaiah prophesied, a certain character within Greek mythology came about: Sisyphus. There are various...

Unlikely Ways, Unending Hope

Introduction We continue our series in Isaiah Yahweh Alone is God, and today that fact is on display as when a diamond is set on black velvet and...

Remember. Return. Redeemed!

Introduction Obsession. What is obsession? My dog’s fascination with food. You know it when you see it. Young love tends to be obsessive. The...