Devotionals

Whether you’re thirsty or hungry, take a seat at the table and receive these beautiful truths from God’s Word, verse by verse.

Devotionals

Guilty as charged

Will we ever run out of grace? Will my sons be raised well while I’m in jail? Will my wife wait for me or run off with another man? Am I a good father? These were probably the questions of anguish...

Easter

Passion Week: It’s more than just bread and wine

It’s the part of the worship service that excites the kids. As the trays of Ribena and wafer get passed around, their eyes light up and their little hands eagerly await their share. In my church,...

Easter

Passion Week: How much are you willing to spend on Jesus?

She held a treasured alabaster jar of perfume in her hands, broke its neck, and lavished it on Jesus, just days before He was put to death. Finally broken, the overwhelming fragrance of a pint of...

Easter

Have you lost heart?

So many of us carry a spirit of resignation and cynicism bred from a thousand small disappointments over time. As an educator, I hear it in the disheartened voices of students who tell me, “I will...

Discipleship

No, repentance is not just being sorry

Nobody likes the feeling of knowing you’re in the wrong. It first hits you with a gnawing feeling inside your heart, and before you know it, it’s the works: Shame, humiliation, regret and...

Easter

Passion Week: Is Good Friday really that good?

I love Good Friday. It’s a public holiday and that means I don’t have to go to school. It’s also the only holiday that is sure to fall on a Friday. I can make plans to go shopping,...

Devotionals

5 amazing Bible stories where less is more

All through the Bible, we see God working with the smallest and/or unlikeliest of people, resources, and situations to do amazing things — even in Christ’s finished work at the cross. And because...

Easter

Passion Week: What does righteous anger look like?

It must have been a beautiful day for the entourage that followed Jesus to Jerusalem just the day before. He rode into the city on a donkey, fulfilling Scripture (Zechariah 9:9) to the adoring shouts...

Easter

Passion Week: Why does Palm Sunday matter?

When I was a teenager in my old church, I remember noticing how the Sunday School kids would wave around palm leaves once a year on a Sunday morning. I never knew what that was about. I just assumed...