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This Sunday, I had to skip church due to sickness, so I did not get to preach the New Years sermon that I had prepared from Ecclesiastes 9. Here is an excerpt from it, where the author begins to point us toward some pursuits that will lead us to God’s ends: pursue JOY | [7] […]

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set […]

“Sing, O barren one, who did not bear;break forth into singing and cry aloud,you who have not been in labor!For the children of the desolate one will be morethan the children of her who is married,” says the Lord. | Isaiah 54:1 This Sunday, we looked at the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth and the […]

In our last week of this series, we looked at the language of Scripture, and the creativity of both how God brings His Word to us, but also the creativity required to read and understand it correctly. In all of this, we are encouraged to see ourselves as stewards of the creativity that God has […]

In our fifth session, we talked about the other side of creativity: the warnings or guardrails, that God puts on us as we begin to create and subdue creation. We went through the narrative of Genesis 3-9 looking at how God presents the dangers of sin through story. We then spent some time block printing!

As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good. If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother. | 2 Thessalonians […]

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but […]

What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the […]

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they […]