No Shadow of Turning (September 30, 2024)

How do we deal with darkness and uncertainty in life? Can we count on God’s blessing? James helps us to think about this.

The Patriarch Who Waits (September 1, 2024)

Waiting is hard—praying for years with silence the only reply, watching others move while you stand still, wondering if God has forgotten or if you took a wrong turn. That was Isaac in Genesis 25: married at forty, still childless nearly twenty years later, the promise hanging unfinished. What do we do in the long stretch when nothing seems to move?

Flopping on the Deck (August 26, 2024)

James challenges where we find hope as we begin this new series in the first chapter of the Epistle from James.

Ladders Over the Wall (August 25, 2024)

It's easy to hunker down when life gets complicated—to pull back, manage what's in front of us, and quietly wonder whether God's bigger plan still has a place for us in it. Genesis 24 puts that question directly to a household living between promise and fulfillment, where staying within your own borders feels safe, and extending the ladder over the wall feels like a risk you might not be ready to take.

The Pool Kept Moving (August 11, 2024)

We've all felt stuck in the middle—watching God work powerfully somewhere else while wondering if He's forgotten us. In Genesis 21 the long-promised son finally arrives and the house fills with laughter, yet Isaac almost vanishes into the background of his own story. Even there, something unseen is still moving.

Don't Hang Up on God (May 19, 2024)

We've all prayed about something so long that we start to wonder if God has put us on hold—and whether anyone is ever going to pick up. In Luke 18, Jesus tells a parable about a powerless widow who keeps pleading before a judge who neither fears God nor respects people, and asks whether his people will keep crying out to him day and night or simply lose heart.

There Ain't No Grave (May 12, 2024)

We’ve all held something we couldn’t restore—a plan, a relationship, a season of life that’s gone dry—and kept clenching it anyway, as if sheer will might put flesh back on the bone. Naomi knew that feeling: she went away full and came back empty, and the Book of Ruth shows what God does with that kind of emptiness.

The Smoker Takes Time (April 22, 2024)

If God is a God of justice (and He is), then how do we live in a time of injustice? David wrestles with this in the middle of Psalm 7.

The Sin-quake Will Be Dampened (April 15, 2024)

If God is a God of justice (and He is), then how do we live in a time of injustice? David wrestles with this in the middle of Psalm 7.

Love That Isn't Eclipsed (April 8, 2024)

David doesn’t ask God to only judge others, but himself, too. How can he do that? Does he believe himself to be above sin? Or is it that his hope isn’t in himself?