When we believe in Jesus, He begins making us into His Church. We, together, become His dwelling place. We are a living house because He lives in us. View the full message:...
This weekend at Riverview, I preached on a passage that calls on Christians to “submit to every human authority because of the Lord…” (1 Peter 2:13). This passage is a hornets’ nest of controversy in the best of times and Covidland kicks the nest with steel-toed...
As followers of Jesus, we are fully perfected in God’s sight and at the same time are being made holy. But sometimes it doesn’t feel that way, right? How can we you that God’s imperishable seed has sprouted in your life? Increasingly, ever so slightly at times, over...
No one likes to be called ignorant. Yet we all were, at one point, ignorant to the truth of the Gospel. As followers of Jesus, our past no longer defines us. View the full message:...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself diving into music I hadn’t listened to in a long time. This turned into a harebrained scheme: I created a “Quarantined Guilty Pleasures” Spotify playlist. Each day, I added a song and invited people on social media to add...
We often think of happiness and joy as the same thing, but they’re completely different. Happiness is dependent on circumstances and joy is rooted outside of our circumstances. As followers of Jesus, our joy is rooted in the grace of God. View the full message:...
There’s nothing going on in the world today that is even the remotest a surprise to God. He has seen everything that is going to happen in the world, from beginning to end, and in all of that He chose...
A friend of mine asked me if I had ever read Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes (Removing cultural blinders to better understand the Bible). Not only had I not read it, I had never heard of it. But I was super intrigued by the title so I picked up the audio book...
