Return to Joy
I am ready for joy. I am hungry for it. After a year of pandemic, characterized for many of us by disappointment, loneliness, and fear, our appetite for joy has only increased. Spring has arrived and the vaccine is becoming…
The Many Sides of Prayer
We’ve Only Just Begun If you haven’t heard yet, across all five campuses, we are on a formational journey toward deeper Christlike being and doing. One of our newest resources to help us learn from God’s word in God’s ways…
A Word Spoken for Ash Wednesday, 2021
By Kelli Sallman Reposted with permission from https://sallmanediting.com/resources-1/2021/2/11/a-word-spoken-for-ash-wednesday-2021 From Ash Wednesday to Easter, the Lenten season beckons us to consider our mortality and sinfulness. But that inward look can develop into tunnel vision if we don’t venture up from the…
Why Are You A Christian?
A few years ago, Dr. Peter Berger, the preeminent sociologist of our time, came to Christ Community for a conversation about religious faith. After eloquently expressing the formidable plausibility challenges of faith in our late modern western world, Dr. Berger…
The Message of Palm Sunday
It is impossible to overstate the dramatic change from Palm Sunday to Good Friday. The typical Palm Sunday service is filled with kids waving palm branches, upbeat songs, and a vibe of joy. Good Friday, on the other hand, is…
Like Those Who Dream
Psalm 126 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations,…
Are You Actually Good, God?
Guest Author: Ashtyn Fair I never expected to openly talk about our story until we were on the other side. I had hoped it would never even be our story in the first place. I remember being seven months into…
Jesus’ Salvation Reorients Everything or Nothing
For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost. (Luke 19:10) Few words come with as much comfort as Jesus’ clarity here as to why He came to us. Some scholars even believe this is the central…
What is a person worth?
I love garage sales. Not just because of the great finds you can come across but because I love to haggle. I think it is my spiritual gift! Garage sales are designed for haggling precisely because of the challenge of…
Can You Celebrate Easter Without Lent?
Lent is the 40-day period leading up to Easter, beginning with Ash Wednesday, culminating with our celebration of the Greatest Day, the day death died and hope triumphed, our Resurrection Sunday. I didn’t grow up in a tradition that thought…