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The world changes rapidly. Technology and culture shift with every generation. The church often responds to these changes with fear. We tend to label new tools as evil and retreat into comfortable tra...

Believers live in a world system that rejects God's standards. This condition is not new. Israel lived in Babylonian captivity for seventy years under a hostile cultural order. Through the prophet Jer...

You can sit in a room full of people and still feel alone. A crowded office, a full church, a family dinner, and the seat next to you still feels empty. Loneliness is not about the number of people ar...

Holiness has a branding problem. We have come to associate holiness with a "holier-than-thou" attitude: a cold, distant judgment of others. We imagine someone standing on a pedestal, looking down at t...

When a ship is in a harbor and a storm approaches, the captain drops the anchor. The anchor is heavy. It disappears into the dark water. You can't see it. But once it hooks into the seabed, the ship i...

Most people translate shalom as "peace." That is like translating the word "home" as "a building." Technically correct. Still incomplete. Shalom is one of the richest words in the Hebrew Bible. It app...

We are creatures of activity. We are addicted to doing and striving. But sometimes, God compels us to stop. During the global shutdowns, the world was forced into a strange, suspended animation. We tr...