Life has been anything but normal…it’s been filled with trouble! When trouble hits us from all sides, lots of things get knocked off track like our routines, comforts, plans, emotions and even our beliefs. We’re plagued with uncertainty, fears and questions we can’t answer. These troubling times can bring us face-to-face with what we really believe or hope in, whether it’s true or false. Often in ...  Read More

As the latest round of racially-based sin has struck our society over the past few weeks, I have thought back to the tension I felt in the sermons I preached on race about a year and a half ago. In one sense, addressing the sin of racism is simple: to demean or dismiss or devalue anyone on account of their skin color is a sin in the eyes of God. Furthermore, the Bible is clear over and over again ...  Read More

Biblical Descriptions of God   While the Bible provides for us some formal/official names of God (i.e. Yahweh, Jehovah, Adonai, Elohim, etc.), there is also an extensive list of comparisons used to help us get a glimpse of him and his character. Here is a sample list, though by no means exhaustive, of various images God is compared to: Lion (Isaiah 31:4)Eagle (Deut. 32:11)Lamb (Isaiah 53:7)Hen (Ma...  Read More

Seeing Clearly   In Exodus 3 we find Moses face to face with God on a mountaintop. In fact, mountaintops would go on to become a significant place for Moses, a place where he experienced the Lord in intimate and unique ways. Later he would receive the law from God on the same mountaintop; then, he would get to look onto the Promised Land from a mountaintop; finally, he would make a posthumous appe...  Read More

My parents have always held missions in high regard and the importance of spreading the gospel around the globe. In my growing up years, stories were read, principles taught, pennies were saved, and prayers were offered. Not only did Dad and Mom teach it, they lived it by leading countless domestic and international short-term mission trips. I had the privilege of participating in some of those. T...  Read More

God’s Wilderness Lessons The wilderness is a place used throughout scripture to shape and form God’s people. Thought we may not necessarily physically go to wilderness places to be shaped by God today, we certainly experience seasons of wilderness, times where we are waiting and things are hard and slow. So, what are some lessons the Lord teaches his people through wilderness experiences? We are t...  Read More