“You were dead…but God…made us alive.” What an amazing way to understand the Gospel. We did not earn this resurrection from the...

There is so much “meat” packed into the opening verses of Ephesians. In this short passage, Paul speaks of being blessed, chosen,...

Guilt and shame can eat us alive. It can be very easy to fall into that rut of guilt and shame, but very difficult to break free from it....

Why do we get stuck in a rut of making foolish and sinful choices? Why do we continue to do things we don’t want to do and we know we...

In his book, Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools, Tyler Staton said, “A maturing community is a confessing community – not a...

Around the time of Nehemiah, the Jewish people had been back in Jerusalem for over 140 years. The temple had been rebuilt decades earlier....

Many of the Jewish people had returned from Babylon to Jerusalem. They started to rebuild the temple, but allowed opposition to stop them....

God sent Amos to prophesy during a period of wealth and prosperity. The rich and powerful felt that everything was going well. They were...

God used the marriage of Hosea to try to get Israel’s attention. He told Hosea to marry a prostitute and experience the pain of being...