What would it be like to live in a world dominated by love, joy, and peace? What would it be like to be surrounded by people marked by patience, kindness, goodness? How aweseome would it be for faithf...  Read More

The Holy Spirit is not an optional add on to an otherwise natural Christian life; rather, the Spirit is the very habitat in which we live the Christian life....  Read More

The book of Acts begins with Jesus making a power promise: You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you (Acts 1.8). Previous to this, however, Jesus made a beautiful promise about th...  Read More

At the college where I did theological studies we took a fifteen-minute coffe breek daily between the first and second sections of class. We would often mingle and speak to people we knew or meet new ...  Read More

A review of scripture indicates that the Spirit of God has been present in every dimension of the story. Remember, there is one God who eternally exists in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit....  Read More

The post-resurrection episode where Jesus walks with two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus reminds us that it’s not enough to know the facts of the gospel; salvation comes through an encounter wi...  Read More

Easter is the highlight of the Christian year; together with believers all over the world we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. But the reason there is resurrection is because there was a death. Goo...  Read More

One of life’s great satisfactions is arriving at a destination we look forward to after a very long journey. In the gospels, Jesus’ long journey began in a place called Caesarea Philippi; at this cruc...  Read More

This living through the coronavirus pandemic experience has been no fun; it has been a long, dark, painful episode. The good news that we have learned – again – is that Jesus is walks with us through...  Read More

Our text is Hebrews 10:19-26.This is one of these passages that if I took time to thoroughly unpack it, you’d be here for hours reading page after page.  Rather than writing a mini-commentary, I thoug...  Read More

Biblical hope is very different from natural hope. Natural hope is the optimistic wish for a particular event within the realm of possibility. Biblical hope is the joyful, confident anticipation of so...  Read More

When we lived in Ukraine, part of the difficulty was the lack of predictability, especially around shopping. We simply did not know when what might be available. And so something like a grocery list b...  Read More