He Who Has Ears… – Week 3 – When Authorities Collide (Matthew 7:24–29) The afternoon had stretched long across the...

He Who Has Ears…– Week 2 – For What It’s Worth(Matthew 13:44-46) The crowds were gone now. Only a short...

He Who Has Ears… – Week 1 – The Story Behind the Stories(2 Samuel 11-12; Matthew 13:10-17) The air in...

Open My Eyes— Week 6 — My Father(Matthew 26:36–46; Luke 22:39–46) Judas stepped away from the kiss. Torchlight flickered through...

Open My Eyes— Week 5 (Part 2) — The Wind Was Already Blowing(Matthew 14:22-33) The wind had been fighting them...

Open My Eyes— Week 5 (Part 1) — We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat(Mark 4:35-41) For several seconds, no one...

Open My Eyes— Week 4 — Surrounded(2 Kings 6:8-23) Morning came quietly to Dothan. The servant stepped from the small...

Open My Eyes— Week 3 — I Will Be With You(Judges 6–7) Gideon swung the stick again, and another cloud...

Open My Eyes— Week 2 — When You Have Nothing Left(1 Kings 19) It’s difficult to imagine that only a...

Open My Eyes— Week 1 — When Yesterday’s Provision Isn’t Enough(Exodus 15–17) Moses stood before the people and said nothing....

As Old As Eden– Week 3 – The Detour That Almost Looks Divine(Matthew 4:8–10) The final ambush didn’t take place...

As Old As Eden– Week 3 – Who Do You Think You Are?(Matthew 4:5–7) The forty days of starvation had...

As Old As Eden– Week 2 – Turning Stones Into Bread(Matthew 4:1–4) The transition was violent. One moment, Jesus was...

As Old As Eden– Week 1 – When Faith Was Easy(Genesis 2–3; Luke 4:1–13) Before the rules, before religion, and...

The View from Abarim (Numbers 27; Deuteronomy 3) The climb to the top of Mount Abarim wasn’t steep, but it...

Where God Meets You– Week 8 – The Target on Your Back(Jeremiah 20; Matthew 5:11-12) The political puppet show in...

– Week 8 – Where God Meets You– Week 8 – Even If He Doesn’t(Daniel 3; Matthew 5:10) The air...

Where God Meets You– Week 7 – To Be Righteous… or to Be Right (Genesis 13; Matthew 5:9) The heat...

Where God Meets You– Week 6 –  An Undivided Heart(Numbers 13-14; Matthew 5:8) The desert of Paran was a furnace...

Where God Meets You– Week 5 –  Burning the Ledger (Genesis 45:1-15; Matthew 5:7) Joseph sat upon the height of...

Where God Meets You– Week 4 – Desperate to Belong(Genesis 32:22-32; Mattheew 5:6) It was nightfall on the edge of...

Where God Meets You– Week 3 – The Knife and the Hem (1 Samuel 24; Matthew 5:5) The air inside...

Where God Meets You– Week 2 – When the Weight Finally Lands(2 Samuel 11-12; Matthew 5:4) The air in the...

Where God Meets You– Week 1 – When Nothing is All You Have Left(Exodus 3-4; Matthew 5:3) Forty years in...

Lost, Found, & Home– Week 5 – Just Come Home(Luke 15) For most of my life, I thought the story...

Lost, Found, & Home– Week 4 – The Father Came Out Again(Luke 15:25–32) The celebration had settled into the kind...

Lost, Found, & Home– Week 3 – He ran First(Luke 15:11–24) The crowd had grown quieter with each story Jesus...

Lost, Found, & Home– Week 2 – Searching the Dust(Luke 15:8–10) The crowd had quieted after the shepherd’s story. The...

Lost, Found, & Home– Week 1 – Until He Finds It(Luke 15:1-7) The road into the village had grown busy...

Barabbas and the Cross (Matthew 27:15-26) Morning light crept slowly over Jerusalem, sliding across limestone streets and the outer walls...

He Remembers You (Judges 16:28; 2 Kings 20:3; Luke 23:42–43) In the beginning there was no distance between God and...

Teach Us How to Pray– Week 6 – When the Prayer Became Grace(Matthew 6:13) They were still gathered close, the...

Teach Us How to Pray– Week 4 – He Knows Your Desert(Matthew 6:13) They were still standing close, the circle...

Teach Us How to Pray – Week 4 – Where Mercy Meets Memory(Matthew 6:12) They were still standing close enough...

Teach Us How to Pray – Week 3 – Receiving What Sustains Us(Matthew 6:11) They were still gathered close, the...

Teach Us How to Pray– Week 2 – Learning to Want What Heaven Wants(Luke 11:2) They were still standing in...

Teach Us How to Pray – Week 1 – “Our Father…”(Luke 11:1-2) They’d asked Him to teach them how to...

All Means All – Week 4 God’s Mic Drop – When Heaven Settles the Question (Acts 10) It’s the middle...

All Means All – Week 3 When Grace Collides with Evil(Acts 9:1–19) Most of us would never say there are...

All Means All – Week 2 When Belonging Finally Finds You(Acts 8:26–40) Last week, we reflected on Simon “the Sorcerer’s”...

All Means All – Week 1 When Grace Meets Baggage(Acts 8:9–25) I was listening to a popular commentary on Acts...

From Griswold to Nehemiah (Nehemiah 1-2; Colossians 4:2) If you’re anywhere near my age, or if you love classic comedy,...

The God of Now – Week 4 – Here and Now The miles between Davenport and Peoria had become familiar...

The God of Now– Week 3 – Longing for Home, Living for Today(Luke 22:42–44; Matthew 26:38; Philippians 1:21–23) The garden...

The God of Now – Week 2 – How Quickly We Forget(Exodus 14–17; Mark 6:30–44; Mark 8:1–10) The desert wind...

The God of Now– Week 1 – Beloved Before You Believe(Genesis 3; Zephaniah 3:17) Before sin, before brokenness, before we...

In the Eyes of the Beholder (Esther 1 & 2) The Persian Empire didn’t gather itself for that six-month celebration....

Moses’ Mountaintop Plea (Exodus 32) The mountain groaned beneath his feet as thunder rolled across the peaks, shaking loose stones...

The Smallest Faith, the Deepest Love (Matthew 17:20) It was one of those tucked-away spots in Huntsville, Alabama—knock at the...