A few months ago, when it was warmer, I prayer walked my neighborhood with my kids.  I started by praying aloud, asking Jesus to show us what He sees in our neighborhood.  Then I asked Sam and Sarah to pray.  And then we were on the lookout.  This particular time, I noticed a row of more »

We don’t know very much about the people who received the letter to the Hebrews. But we do know with relative certainty that like us, they lived busy lives in a big city and it was wearing them out. To these overwhelmed, overtired, and overly busy followers of Jesus Christ, the author writes Hebrews 4:1-13. more »

Quick, what did Jesus do to allow His followers to be reborn? Reading the second half of 1 Peter 1:3, we see that it’s not Jesus’ death, it’s not the cross, but “the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead”.  Our hope doesn’t rest on Jesus taking the punishment for our sins, on Him dying more »

Are you seeing fruit as a disciple of Jesus Christ? In my backyard, I’ve had a lemon tree for about two years and it hasn’t yet produced any lemons.  And this concerns me because it serves as an indicator to me that something is wrong with my tree.  I don’t know if it’s not getting more »

In Galatians 5:19-21, there’s a list of “the acts of the flesh”.  And 2000 years and thousands of miles removed from the church in Galatia, when we read that list, it reads like a list.  Sterile and boring. The thing is that the list of “acts of the flesh” aren’t a list of hypothetical sins.  more »