In elementary school I waited with baited breath each week as my first-grade teacher announced her five classroom helpers. “Please let me be the messenger. Please let me be the messenger,” …
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Start with Worship
Start with worship. When Ezra and the exiles return to Jerusalem after seventy years, they come home to: devastation. Standing on the barren plateau where the Temple of the LORD once …
Launch the Boats!
Thrown in the deep end. When I started researching suicide, its causes, treatments, and prevention, it was because I was thrown in the deep end of the crisis pool. We’ve all been there, …
Loved – Saved – Sent
We believe: God broadcasts truth through the Bible so that we know: God loves us. God made everything and everyone, and people are God’s favorite and best creation. and God wants every person …
Double Crown
When the creation was new God handed the rule of it to: us. Human beings. We are God’s high stewards, benevolent leaders to bless and protect and promote the earth and all the lower …
God’s Endgame: Restoration
God’s endgame: Job’s restoration. Before Job’s restoration, a youngster named Elihu jumps up and has his say. He has waited – patiently – to hear all of his elders and now words just flow …