The gospel is the good news that God loves us, not merely when we look our best, but our worst.

Amongst all the busyness…let us not forget to behold Christ our Lord! Don’t let the hustle and bustle of the holiday season keep you from being intentional about focusing your heart on Christ.

There is personal comfort in Christmas. It’s good, but it ought not to end with us. The comfort of Christ is meant to move through his comforted people to a hurting world.

Doing this one thing has saved me so much unnecessary angst and struggle, and I believe it honors the Lord and blesses others.

Keep moving towards gratitude and pausing upon it today. You’ll find yourself all the richer with every thanks, for you’ll discover yourself both humbled and dearly loved. 

Our wasting away is indisputable; these earthly tents will perish. But our hope is not in this life but the next, not this body but our glorified one.

If we want to follow Jesus and have a life that reflects his character and heart, the surest way to do so is to deeply root our lives in a gospel-centered local church.

Our welcomes, our calls to worship, deserve the same level of intentionality as our song selections and sermon preparation. It is our first declaration of Jesus and invitation to Jesus, and all that follows in a worship service backs it up and builds on it.

We love the thrill of an insight, the feeling of hearing the gospel, the reinforcement of our beliefs. But good feelings and new insights mean nothing unless they change us.

Tim Shorey, one of our staff writers, is journaling through his struggle with stage 4 cancer. In this entry, God is always doing more than we can perceive from the outside.

Shifting from people’s approval to God’s isn’t about adding new tasks to your week; it’s about a new way of thinking that sinks deeply into the heart.

I’d preached what seemed like dozens of applications on being the church, but nothing sizable happened until I preached with love, and members seized the opportunity to then walk in love.