This past Saturday the world of college athletics was shocked to hear the tragic news regarding the murder of a young woman in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, the home of the University of Alabama. The young woman who lost her life was a 23-year-old, single mother, Jamea Harris. Jamea Harris was not a college athlete however, but…
I am a football fan. Even though I find it increasingly difficult to watch football on TV— whether college or professional—because of the worldly commercialization and scary wokeness surrounding the sport, I have not yet given up on my interest because I do appreciate elite athletic competition and the drama and excitement such competition produces….
A few weeks ago, I had the privilege to speak at our AGC Men’s Retreat. My good friend Marc Luiken and I shared the main speaking roles for the weekend and our assigned topic to address was “The Satisfied Soul.” In the weeks leading up to the event, Marc and I worked to coordinate a…
As I survey our nation’s current state, I find myself wondering more and more whether Christ’s return is imminent. As our national election day approaches and the candidates promise what they simply cannot deliver, I’m guessing many of you are wondering as well if the day of Lord is near. But beyond a pure and…
This past Sunday I addressed the issue of personal capacity and how easy it is to find yourself in a state of burnout when you try to live the Christian life on your own reserves. To face all that life throws your way, you need to operate from the inside out, not outside in. In…
If you were to ask my parents what they thought of having a pianist for a son, you’d undoubtedly hear the standard boilerplate response. They both love the fact that I’m a musician and they loved having a house filled constantly filled with piano music. But dig down a little deeper and you’d discover from…
Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. 2 At the end of three days the officers went through the camp 3 and commanded the people, “As soon as you see the ark of the…
One of the ways to measure how healthy a church is is to diagnose the level of transparency fostered amongst the people. For any church, becoming a transparent community can be a challenge no matter where it is in the country, but especially for a Body here in Alaska, becoming open can be a difficult…
31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air…
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