I was asked a really good question this week, and I thought I would expound on my answer a bit more than I could reply in a text message.Did Jesus Contradict Himself at Cana?One of the more difficult ...  Read More

Every week, churches gather and give a significant portion (some more than others) of the service to a person standing in front of everyone else and talking. That can seem a little strange when you st...  Read More

Confessing sin is hard. Not confessing is exhausting. I know. There have been times in my life when I didn’t want to admit that I was wrong, or that I had returned to something God had already rescued...  Read More

Sometimes it’s hard to invite someone through the open door of the church. Maybe they’ve shared church hurt with you or maybe a childhood that turned them off…and an invitation back into a spiritual s...  Read More

There is a modern temptation to rethink the gathering around what feels most useful, least offensive, and easiest to receive. Sometimes that means the harder portions of Scripture are softened or avoi...  Read More

This is outrageous.I can’t even believe this is happening. You should be outraged with me if you really understand what’s going on.You open your phone for a quick scroll, and within a few minutes your...  Read More

I’ve been asking myself a question that feels a little exposing.Do we pray on Sunday because we believe it matters, or because it’s just one of the things churches do before we get to what we really c...  Read More

There are Sundays when singing feels like the part of the service we are waiting to get through.We stand. We look at the screen. We move our mouths. We think about whether we like the song, whether th...  Read More

Sunday morning is not just a habit. It's not just tradition. When the church gathers, something deeper is happening...something God Himself designed....  Read More

The day after Good Friday must have felt suffocating.Not because everything was happening.But because nothing was.In modern Christianity, we give little to no thought to the Saturday in between. Our f...  Read More

Good Friday is traditionally understood as the day of Jesus’s crucifixion. Many hold that it may have been Friday, April 3, AD 33. But what is so good about it?On this day, nearly 2,000 years ago, Jes...  Read More

Holy Thursday, or Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with His disciples. Maundy comes from the Latin mandatum (commandment) referring to Jesus’ m...  Read More