The Christmas season is in full swing! With Black Friday behind us and the steady march toward Christmas Day begun, our wanting engines are warming up. But how do we know what the right things to hope for are? Isaiah invites the people of Judah to want God’s justice and salvation: a gift for the whole world!
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There are ways we just can’t know God when we stay in our comfort zones. Jesus invites us to follow him out of the places we call home to discover the new and surprising ways we can grow in our faith when we dare to leave.
Continue readingDiscipleship is about more than just learning the right information. It’s about pursuing a transformed life. We must continually employ practices that help us know the story of Jesus so that it becomes our story.
Continue readingDiversity is essential to God’s work in the world, but as a rule, churches are bad at real diversity. In John 4, Jesus’ disciples illustrate what’s at stake when we don’t make a point to practice diversity.
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