Genesis – A New Beginning: A New Dream, Part 2
Genesis 37: We live in a culture which is entranced with the idea of the American dream. We ...
Genesis – A New Beginning: A New Dream, Part 1
Genesis 37: The cast of characters in Genesis 37 shows us the nuances of personality types and the ...
Genesis – A New Beginning: A New Fight
Genesis 32: When we meet Jacob, we can ask him what it was like to wrestle with God. ...
Genesis – A New Beginning: A New Encounter
Genesis 28:10-22: It's easy for us to think that only special religious places can be zones of access ...
Genesis – A New Beginning: A New Blessing
Gen 27:1-40: Through the story of Isaac and Jacob we see that God blesses the world through broken ...
Genesis – A New Beginning: A New Test
Genesis 22:1-19: Does God test us today? The word "test" has so many connotations. The truth is that ...
Genesis – A New Beginning: A New Call
Genesis 12:1-9: We come to the story of Abraham in Genesis and we find a command, a blessing, ...
Friends in High Places—How To Follow God, Part 2
Nehemiah 13: I sometimes wonder whether one of the signs of pride is a lack of rest or ...
Friends in High Places—How To Follow God, Part 1
Nehemiah 13: The reality of the fallen world in which we all live is evidenced in Nehemiah 13. ...
Friends in High Places—The Non-Theoretical Word, Part 2
In one of his most startling statements, Jesus said that the cities where he was doing his miracles ...
Friends in High Places—The Non-Theoretical Word, Part 1
Nehemiah 10: Here we look at the response of Nehemiah's people to God's Word. Misreading the Word to ...
Friends in High Places—The Power of the Word, Part 2
Nehemiah 8-9: It's very important to get these simple steps right when studying the Bible: what does it ...
Friends in High Places—The Power of the Word, Part 1
Nehemiah 8-9: Nehemiah 8 speaks about the recovery of the centrality of God's Word, among God's covenant people ...
Friends in High Places—The Upside of Opposition, Part 2
Nehemiah 4: What we have here is an encouragement to be honest with God when facing opposition. Very ...
Friends in High Places—The Upside of Opposition, Part 1
Adversity reveals what we really believe. Do we have faith in God despite our immediate circumstances? During testing ...
Friends in High Places—The Power of the One, Part 2
In Scripture, God used a wandering nomad (Abraham), a convicted murderer (Moses), an adulterer (David), and a religious ...
Friends in High Places—The Power of the One, Part 1
The Bible stands against the myth of human divinity. We are not infinite; we are mortal. We have ...
The State of the Vision: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
These days Christians in America go around looking defeated like things are bad and going to get worse. ...
20/20 Vision: Worship
There is nothing distinctly religious about worship. We are all worshippers. Worship is what humans do when they ...
20/20 Vision: Outreach, Part 2
He does not tell these hard-working Colossians to initiate opportunities, he tells them to respond to opportunities. We ...
20/20 Vision: Outreach, Part 1
Is believing in Jesus like wearing vision-enhancing glasses that improve your view of life? Or is believing in ...