This is why we pray for revival. It is a good expression of our faith to learn how to witness, to develop lists of people we know need Jesus, and to strategize on how to give them the gospel. Yet apart from the Spirit’s effective presence, we labor in vain. Apart from the Spirit’s powerful response, our efforts will be for naught, so much exertion of our energy without...

If Jesus were a superhero, one of his titles would rightly be The Abominator. The gospel begins with this horrible truth that all of us are so fully and truly abominations before the Lord that we have no hope of ever finding even the possibility of peace with God. Yet, God who justly hates us in our abominations has also chosen to love us in them! He sent Jesus to become t...

This is why we pray for revival: many of those professing faith in Christ show symptoms of the FPG virus. They are weak in desires for Christlikeness, and they are strong in desires for worldliness. The absence of the delightful sabbath in many of their hearts is strong evidence of their spiritual illness. Let us increase our pleading with the Great Physician to send the S...

We who have Jesus have a shame-free hope, one that is both the right quality and quantity that secures our true purpose-in-life. Let us take the message of this sure hope back to our community!...

Surely the coronavirus is a crown of judgment. Yet until Jesus returns it is a crown that warns people to flee to Jesus to escape the coming judgment from which there is no hope of escape. Let us recommit ourselves proclaiming this good news echoed in this crown of judgment....

God is not mocked. The coronavirus is one of the seeds we’ve sown, and its toll of suffering and death is part of the harvest of corruption that comes with it (Gal 6:7-8). In this grandma hating time, singing the Mt Carmel Blues won’t take away the sting of these things (1Co 15:55-56). We need to return to our first love, our only hope, Jesus, and take him to our famil...

The crushing of Millennial dreams causes many to cry out in anger, frustration, and fear. It is a terrible thing to lose your dreams, and then maybe your life as well. Yet the coronavirus, reducing a victim’s breathing, all but eliminates a person’s ability to scream. Further, even those of us who are healthy, trapped in our self-quarantines, don’t really have the op...

We who have heard the truly good news, who have been put to death to this life, and already brought back to a new life (Gal 2:20), we need envy no more. In this pandemic the world has coughed. Let us tell them of the Savior who died for them....

While we're right to be concerned about COVID-19, it does point us to a more deadly virus, one that only the Lord of Life can cure! The Church is in the grips of a spiritual pandemic worse than any natural virus. Let us take those contaminated by it to the Great Physician. He is their only hope of a cure from this more deadly virus....

Could it be that so many in our community know the right answers (“I’m a sinner, Jesus is my savior”) but live under the old life because they’ve never experienced the killing effect of repentance unto life? Could it be that even some of those who have been born again languish under the remnants of the old life (Rom 7:15-25) simply because of never understanding th...