Human nature leads us to want people to think highly of us. But what does the example of Jesus show?
Being the church together is hard. How do we know what “ingredients” we need to rise to the calling God has for us?
How do we understand God saying His Word will harden hearts? What does that mean for us?
Are we called by God? Do we understand our calling any more clearly by way of Isaiah’s?
How do we understand ourselves in relationship to God? Isaiah 6 challenges us to think about that.
As we live as Christians, we face struggles and opposition. Shouldn’t life be easier? Should we find a way to make it easier?
Sometimes the deck appears to stacked and it’s hard to see how life will do anything but go from bad to worse. How do we have joy then?
As we think about joy in dark places, Paul turns to those who are actually preaching the Gospel with the aim of discrediting him. What do we do when people and circumstances seem to want to hurt us?
When things come crashing down and everything feels broken, how can we possibly think about “joy”? We turn to Paul’s letter to the Philippians to find out.
As we move on from the “spectacular” of Christmas, what does the last part of Luke 2 tell us about living in the boring and ordinary?