If you bring your totaled car to your dentist, don’t expect her to replace the engine block. If you’ve had a toothache for weeks, don’t pay your mechanic to try a root canal. So much of our frustration with our earthly government comes when we expect it to perform things it wasn’t designed to perform. […]

“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ “Anyone […]

A fish washed up on the beach moves her tail, but nothing happens. Try as she might, she can’t do what she was meant to do. But if you put her back in the water and she moves her tail, she feels like she’s soaring. When we search for the meaning of our life in […]

These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. When you […]

Have you ever come across one of those videos that zooms out from earth, showing how small our country and continent and entire planet is in comparison to our universe? It’s easy to feel insignificant after seeing that. But you are not insignificant to your God. He created the vast universe, yes; yet he’s aware […]

Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is […]

Ever been given a task that feels impossible to complete? A huge school project, an assignment at work that is so sprawling it makes you anxious just thinking about it? When we look out at our city, we see so many people whose lives would be changed forever if they heard about Jesus. But how […]

Why do people go to church? Or, more importantly, why might you go to church? Because it’s something to do, because it’s how you were raised? Jesus says that church is for people who are sick. People who are anxious. People who have guilt from their past. People who feel inadequate in some way. People who have […]

Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of […]

Sometimes life can seem gray. When you’re just going through the motions, each day blending into the next. These words of your Savior make your life pop with beautiful colors! Hear the almost unbelievable truth of what Jesus says: God is with you. When you wake up, he is with you. When you commute, he is with you. […]