The Sacred Story

In our image-rich world of #hashtags and sound bytes, does God use a marketing strategy to spread the gospel? Lately I’ve been learning about marketing techniques to get a message across in today’s hyper-marketed culture and it has led me to wonder if maybe John 1:14 whispers God’s Divine marketing strategy to us: “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.” If God…

Do you think it’s possible to be drained, worn out, and exhausted yet somehow not depleted? Is it possible to be completely emptied yet somehow filled to overflowing? Tonight that is how I feel.  After a long week of the most incredible but draining work I came home and had a minor meltdown.  With tears of exhaustion, I wondered, ‘What…

People have been asking one big question for thousands of years: How many ways are there to God?  While under house arrest in the year 62 AD Paul, a citizen of Rome, wrote a letter to a small group of people in the ancient city of Colosse to answer that very question. Colossians is a tiny little…

Come, let’s leave behind our frenzied to-do lists for a moment and take a deep breath. Let’s push past the rushing roadways of check-out lines, late night scotch tape battles and tangled twinkle-light meltdowns to find a quiet place. Let’s step lightly onto an unmarked holy field of snow-white wonder where grace was born. Let’s kneel down and gaze into the…

As Social Media blew up first over the “Red Cup” Controversy, then over the refugee crisis Christians in America have publicly wrestled with the question,  “Who are we?” As Christ followers, as His Church, as His Bride? This week we debated coffee, next week it will be something else, but in moments of discussion and decision, how do we…

When was the last time you felt so overwhelmed with circumstances you frantically looked around for a way of escape? In moments like those we can get desperate. So desperate we might just jump on the first opportunity of “escape” that walks by. But if we are too hasty, we may miss something very powerful. We may miss the experience…

Do you enjoy a good story?  What if I said that right now you are part of the most epic story mankind has ever seen? I’m convinced that we were created with an intense inner craving for good stories; to hear them and to be part of them. Stories capture the pathos and pain, the passion and persistence of the…

Life has moments that take your breath away… And moments that suck the life right out of you. Yet in every season, both in the ups and the downs, there is a truth that holds us steady: God is Good. Oh, I know…Sometimes its not easy to see His goodness. Sometimes anger, fear, sorrow, shame, exhaustion, frustration, or apathy cover this truth…

The most powerful stand we can take is the one we take together.   “How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!  It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s beard, down upon the collar of his robes.  It is as if the…

God Is Big: Big enough. Bigger than. Big and strong. We probably all know this is true, but are we actually living like this is true? He is big enough to handle our fears, our pain, our anger.  He is bigger than any problem, danger or concern.  He is big and strong when we feel weak and tired and small.…