Oct 30, 2023
On the morning of October 2, 2006, a troubled milkman named Charles Carl Roberts barricaded himself inside the West Nickel Mine Amish School, ultimately murdering five young girls and wounding six others. Roberts committed suicide when police arrived on the scene. It was a dark day for the Amish community of West...
Oct 22, 2023
To be devoted to King Jesus means that his Kingdom and it's ethics, values and mission are likewise, our ethics, values and mission. That's all fine and good until those Kingdom ethics, values and mission come in conflict with those of the culture or more specifically, those of the crowd. It's in that tension where we...
Oct 16, 2023
As Jesus opens The Sermon on the Mount, his first metaphor to
describe what it means to be a citizen of the Kingdom of God
is that of salt. A Kingdom Citizen is to be like salt?
"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its
saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for
anything, except...
Oct 9, 2023
The Old Testament book of Daniel opens with Jerusalem falling at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar's army and Daniel and his friends taken off to Babylon to live in exile. Much of the book then describes what it looks like to live as exiles in a foreign land; how they remain true to their convictions about God in a...
Oct 9, 2023
If a tree had a mission, what would it be? Take carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen? Provide relaxing shade in the scorching hot days of summer? Paint their leaves stunning colors in the fall for everyone to enjoy? Provide material for that beautiful coffee table in your living room? These are all wonderful benefits...