On God’s Providence by Stephen Rankin As many Christians have done when facing challenges, they find encouragement from verses like these from Psalm 139: Where can I go from your Spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make
On this episode of the Sermon Notes Podcast, host Jay Strother and Brian Ball pick up where Sunday’s sermon on Revelation 15 left off and cover the chapters we didn’t have time to preach. Jay’s advice before they dive in: buckle up, and remember that the plain things are the
Why Small Churches Stay Plateaued (And How To Break the Pattern) You’re stuck at 50 to 120. Faithful people. Generous giving. Nothing’s growing. You’ve tried everything. The problem isn’t vision. It’s what Jewish culture calls “halakha.” The way of walking. Reaching Gen Z With the Gospel: Why Authenticity and Community
For readers acquainted with the great American poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)—or even, dare I say, the macabre predilections of adolescence—it will come as little surprise that the Belle of Amherst spent a number of her formative years trying to imagine her own death. What might prove slightly more surprising is
The Lord promises the most remarkable thing to His children—even to those who seem to be cast away, like the Jewish captives in Babylon. “A new heart…will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
Artificial Intelligence and the Things That Matter Most By Jonathan A. Powers “Do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation.” These words come at the opening of C. S. Lewis’s essay, “On Living in an Atomic Age,” written in 1948 as the world struggled to come
Daryl Murray grew up in a Christian home, but his faith became his own as a teenager on a youth choir tour to New York City. A few years later, during a summer internship near Times Square, he told a homeless man at a church door to come back the