“If Jesus made everything but He was born as a baby, who made Joseph and Mary?” That was the question from my five-year-old daughter, Lucy, at bedtime a couple of weeks ago. We had been talking about the Christmas story.…
The holidays are a time when we think about home. For some, home is a place of warm memories. For others, home was a place you couldn’t wait to escape. But most of us have some sense that we aren’t…
When I finished reading J. D. Vance’s New York Times bestselling book, Hillbilly Elegy, I had one thought: This book makes it so clear why the local church as God designed it is the hope of the world. Now, it…
The first three chapters of the Bible, Genesis 1-3, are probably some of the most familiar of any chapters in the Bible. They have been ground zero for debates over the origins of life, evolution, and the age of the…
Three seconds. Answer this question: When you hear “spiritual formation,” what are the first three images that came to mind? Mine were: people on a silent retreat, people reading their Bibles, people praying by candlelight. Okay, another one. Three seconds. When…