Christianity

After years of working in various jobs that left her unfulfilled, Bronnie Ware began seeking employment with “heart.” It was working in hospice care that finally gave her the purpose she had been in search of. It …

During our recent trip to North Carolina, we spent some pretty incredible days as a family playing in the ocean. On one of the first days, there were some pretty remarkable waves that we experienced …

In our last worship night, I loved sharing the story of Ezekiel and the valley of the dry bones. In this passage of Ezekiel, God is sharing some bad news and good news. The bad news …

In John 8:1-11, we read that Jesus has gathered early in the morning in the temple courts to teach. As He begins, the teachers of the law and Pharisees bring before him a woman who …

If he were alive today, he would tell you that his life was really quite “ordinary.”  Thomas Chisholm was born in Kentucky in 1866. At the age of 16 he became a school teacher and, …

Here’s a question that was sent in to the church in our “You Asked For It” series that I would love to answer. The question was, “Does forgiveness mean that we have to forget?” I mentioned …

OK. I will admit it. I may be on the Pokémon GO app bandwagon and, apparently, I’m not the only one. Within 24 hours of its release, it has become the biggest mobile game in …

I’m ready for the morning that I can wake up, roll out of bed, flip on the morning news and not see images and hear the stories of yet another tragedy that has taken place in …

In Mother Teresa’s little book In the Heart of the World, she writes about a time she took in an orphan boy whose mother had died from disease. To her, it was a small expression of …

I recently got a call from my friend, Cody, whom I hadn’t seen since high school. We met over coffee and talked about life and where we both had been over the past several years. …

Love this… Life is like a sailboat. You can have a destination in mind, but you’ll never get there if you don’t pay attention to the wind. The wind is the key to everything. your …

There’s a beautiful moment found in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6. Jesus is speaking to a crowd that has gathered around Him and He senses the weight that people are carrying. He senses …

Whiplash. That’s what it felt like when I arrived home on Sunday following a morning worship service in Harvest spent on the fruit, “joy,” and then learning of the worst mass shooting to have ever …

Well, it finally happened. To be honest with you, I knew it was inevitable. Earlier this week I found a few spare moments in my usually overbooked schedule to take a quick run on the …