Want to know God’s will for you? Live in community. This is the context for knowing God’s will. Our commitment to Christ and other believers is inseparable. And one benefit to community is that we can expect that He will often guide us or convey His will to us through others–especially believers. Community is one […]

The Word

God is like a parent, and we are like adult children who have the capacity to understand and to choose His will for our lives. What are you going to do in order to increase your capacity to choose wisely? Knowing and doing the Word of God (the Bible) is of critical importance and is […]

What It Means to be a Disciple

What is a disciple? Jesus turned one day to the crowds following him and made some startling statements. They thought of themselves as his disciples, but he called them to question their deepest motives. They weren’t opposing him. They weren’t trying to trap him. They were not uninterested in his life and message. In fact, […]

Joining God

“Bad people should get a bad end.” This was Jonah’s outlook, and often our own. Jonah was furious with God. His wrath was a bubbling over kind of wrath. We often fail to see and act as God sees and acts. One day we hope to see realized more and more the very depth of […]

Sharing the Message

Just like Jonah, we have a message from the Creator God to a rebelling humanity for everyone. It begins with information about God’s work of sending his Son as a perfect Savior for humanity; it ends with an invitation. But people don’t have to understand it all and pass a Bible exam before they become […]

Time to Yield

Jonah succeeds in what he set out to do. He removes himself from the presence of God. Now he is drowning; he is dying. Yet God extends undeserved grace. He rescues Jonah. We learn that there is this reality of the presence of a God who loves in all of that brokenness. The grace of […]

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