What the Early Church Knew That We Have ForgottenThere is a strange paradox defining modern life. We are more connected than at any point in human history, and yet loneliness has reached epidemic prop...  Read More

Reading:  Isaiah 26:33 You will keep in perfect peace    those whose minds are steadfast,    because they trust in you.Devotional: Peace is rarely found all at once. It is discovered step by step alon...  Read More

Reading:  Romans 12:1-21 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship....  Read More

Reading:  1 Thessalonians 5:16-1816 Rejoice always,17 pray continually,18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.Devotional: Gratitude is not a feeling that a...  Read More

Reading:  Luke 15:3-73 Then Jesus told them this parable: 4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sh...  Read More

Reading:  Philippians 4:4-74  Rejoice in the Lord always.  Again I will say, rejoice! 5  Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. 6  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by p...  Read More

There is a kind of peace that makes no logical sense. It does not arrive because the circumstances improved. It does not show up after the diagnosis comes back clean, after the bank account recovers, ...  Read More

Romans 6:8-118 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over h...  Read More

Romans 6:44 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.2 Corinthian...  Read More

Romans 6:11-1411 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offe...  Read More

Galatians 2:2020 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for m...  Read More

Romans 6:1-41 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that a...  Read More