1 Peter

Computer games, movies, books, comics, you name it, no matter how authors and screen writers imagine the future of our human race, people are still being people, lying, hurting, stealing, abusing, betraying, fighting, manipulating, and murdering one another hundreds of years into the future. The best our imaginings can offer hope for is that perhaps […]

No matter your temperament, be it goal-driven-list-checker-off-er, or distractible-squirrel-chaser, at some time we have all wasted our lives pursuing the wrong things. This text calls us in for a spiritual check-up with a reminder: Do not waste your life in pursuits that lack eternal value.

“Christ says, ‘Give me All. I don’t want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it….I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself:

As a church, when we think about our Lord and Savior, we can very easily find ourselves focused exclusively on the details of how he accomplished our salvation. While those details are a critical part of knowing God and understanding who Jesus is, we must be careful to watch the scene after the credits too.

Baptism is such a beautiful reminder of three things that are true for us through faith in Christ – our death to our flesh, our resurrection in the Spirit of Christ to new life, and the cleansing of our conscience from the dead works of our past. While we often speak of baptism as death