Read Genesis 4I don’t understand this story.  By that, I mean I don’t really get why all the details are there or what they mean.  So, when I approach this story, I grapple with those ideas I don’t ge...  Read More

Read Hebrews 11:17-40Go through the list of stories here and consider, from the subject's perspective, everything that was “given up” in each of these examples of faith.What has your faith “cost” you ...  Read More

Read Genesis 12Let’s explore some faith stories this week in our devotions.  I mean stories about people that took seemingly large leaps that, for us watching, proved their level of faith…if faith com...  Read More

Read Psalm 119:1-16Psalm 119 is a really long read all at once!  Let’s take the week to make smaller bites out of it, but don’t sacrifice the time you should spend really thinking about it.  I don’t w...  Read More

Read Deuteronomy 6For the last year, I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to aim at the long game of church work.  For years, as a church planter, I feel we had to think about growing the chu...  Read More

Read 1 Samuel 30This is an interesting story that was included here.  It doesn’t seem to have any real connection points for the overall story the narrator is telling us, but rather is just another st...  Read More

Read Ephesians 4:11-16These verses should drive a lot of what we think and do in a church.  How often we have seen examples of churches, or what started as a church, lost its way because it was not su...  Read More

Read Psalm 100 (A song of Praise for the Lord’s Faithfulness to His people)Taking time to contemplate what Scripture says, what the authors were thinking/feeling as they were writing it, and the messa...  Read More

These are the five day devotions for the sermon titled "At The Intersection of Patience and Anger."...  Read More

Read Psalm 16 David’s life seems to always be in danger in these stories.  Here he declares that he will seek the Lord.  He knows that others run after other gods, he will not.  He has made up his min...  Read More

These are the five days of devotions for the sermon from October 30th titled "How To Live In Caves and Wilderness."...  Read More

These are the devotions for the sermon titled "Whose Word I Praise"...  Read More