This is the second post of a series looking at the health of our churches. Read the first post if you haven’t already. Just as every living thing is made of individual cells, our churches are made up of individual believers. Some simple organisms are made up of a single cell, but complex living things…

You likely remember what happened in March and April 2020. A mysterious agent from China got in a taxi, hopped on a bus, and then boarded an airplane to make its way to our shores. Once here, it slowly infiltrated our communities. At first, we heard of only a few people in another state or…

Modernity has given us convenience that steals our time, consumption that starves our souls, and information that obscures wisdom. Something is not right in our world.

In the opening paragraphs of his book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicolas Carr writes: “Over the last few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain . . . I used to find it easy to immerse myself in a book…

To many of the Jewish people during the time of Jesus, the religious leaders such as the scribes and Pharisees appeared to be the most righteous people in society. It was the scribes and Pharisees who prayed, fasted, and tithed more than anyone else. It was the scribes and Pharisees who knew the Holy Scriptures…

Even the most devoted Christians have periods of doubt. “Is what the Bibles says true?” “Was Jesus really who He said He was?” “Why is there evil in the world if God is good?” “Did God create the universe?” Each of these questions have had entire books written about them, but for now we will…

In the distance I hear the low roar of trucks and cars traveling on Route 58. Two crows call and respond to each other while smaller birds twitter and sing. A rustling of leaves in a walnut tree reveals an acrobatic squirrel, his tail twitching and jerking as he races around gathering nuts or doing…

We no longer have temples in our cities to our patron gods, but the heart of man has not changed in the nearly 2,000 years since the books of 1 Corinthians and Revelation were written. When man does not worship God, he will raise up some other god to worship, whether it is a visible…