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On Sunday, we looked at two wrong ways to approach conflict resolution. Modern psychology has described a fight or flight response to moments of stress, and these create the two extremes of how people act when faced with an issue of conflict. Neither fight or flight (or a manipulative middle ground like Abner) bring us […]

On Sunday, we looked at the connection between character and leadership. The point was that to lead in a godly way is to strive to act honorably in all situations (and let God take care of the outcomes). One of the obvious applications of this, which I left off of the table, was that of […]

As we began 2 Samuel this week, I made a point about how we go straight through books of the Bible, so that we interact with all of it. Then I skipped over the end of the first chapter, which is especially awkward because the title of the sermon came from this section. We are […]

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 […]