Encouragement and Challenge from the Psalms

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground. Psalm 143:10 Sometimes when I need encouragement I head to the Psalms. Today’s verse on the YouVersion app was Psalm 143:10. This verse is both an encouragement and a...

Aim at Heaven

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither. ~ C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity This is a simple statement, and yet I’m not sure we truly understand it. Or perhaps we understand it but we don’t believe it. Some might find it too...

Knowing God

We all have come to know that a relationship takes two people. We know that just as one gives, so must the other. There is a constant working between the two, yet does this hold true when we think about our relationship with God? We pray with God and lay all of our...

Easter Tidings

Today, I greet you in the name of Jesus with “He is Risen!” And I pray you answer with “He is Risen Indeed!” It is Easter Sunday, the very height of the church year. We celebrate Jesus’ resurrection as the event that so changed our world it split time into BC and AD....

A Different Kind of Triumphal Entry

Triumphal entries were nothing new. People would have been used to seeing war heroes riding back into Rome and being celebrated for their success, for their killing off the enemy. They were a big deal. However, in Matthew 21, we see a very different type of triumphal...