Welcome to Redemption

Scripture: Acts 17:22-28

The point is that the days of Christians being afraid of poetry and science should have ended a long time ago.  Because poetry and science are the language of faith...

Scripture: John 14:6-7, Micah 6:6-8

The bible doesn’t have clear answers for all of the questions we have.  But as for some of our questions, like today’s question,...

Scripture: Mark 9:17-24

When people have doubts about God, we usually do one of two things.  We either repress the doubts and pretend like we've got it all figured out, or we surrender to...

Scripture: Leviticus 1:1-4

We look back at Leviticus and all of its prescriptions and dead animals and we think, It’s so primitive. And it’s so gross.  But had we only...

Scripture: Mattew 5:13-20

My greatest takeaway from Jacobs’ book is the relationship between faith and works.  We tend to think good faith leads to good works.  But...

Scripture: Ruth 1:15-21

The story of Naomi and Ruth is really a story about “redemption.”  The Book of Ruth is only 86 verses long, but the words “redeem,”...

Scripture: 2 Samuel 12:1-8, 13

What’s amazing is that David is a central figure in Jesus’ family tree.  This flawed, sinful man is one of Jesus’ most prominent...

Scripture: Genesis 38, John 7:53-8:11

I often wonder if, while the Pharisees picked up rocks and the naked woman wept and begged for her life, Jesus knelt and wrote in the sand the...

People all the time want to know what God’s will is for their lives, and there are things
that are specific to all of us that we have to figure out. But there’s one thing we all...