Walking on Water

Walking on Water

Editor’s Note: We asked a Providence family serving overseas to share some of the common challenges in missions and ways their family has seen God’s faithfulness. To hear more from this family, join us for Stories from the Nations on Sunday, March 26 at 6:00 pm. I remember walking off the plane for the first time and being hit with all of the...

Walking on Water

Editor’s Note: We asked a Providence family serving overseas to share some of the common challenges in missions and ways their family has seen God’s faithfulness. To hear more from this family, join us for Stories from the Nations on Sunday, March...

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How I Prioritize The Good Portion

How I Prioritize The Good Portion

This weekend, I had the opportunity to preach on an episode in Jesus’ ministry that has been both convicting and encouraging to me through the years. (If you missed it, you can watch it here.) In the story of Mary and Martha, we see a powerful reminder about the...

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Suffering

Suffering

As humans we are ever seeking to make meaning of the world around us. Moments of pain and suffering are no different. We tell ourselves that if we can make sense of why something is happening, we can endure it. As followers of Jesus we may be tempted to believe that...

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Humility

Humility

As we begin the second week of Lent, let’s turn our eyes and our hearts to the humility of Jesus. Rather than attempting to summarize the humility of Jesus in our own words, let us read Philippians 2:6-8. “Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not...

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Approaching Lent

Approaching Lent

The celebration and observation of Easter is just over the horizon—an opportunity for us to gather with the church to celebrate the hope we have in our risen Savior, Jesus. However, with busy schedules, work, and extracurricular activities that often crowd our lives,...

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A Response to the Reversal of Roe v. Wade

Friends, Yesterday, the Supreme Court overturned the highly controversial Roe v. Wade decision made 50 years ago. Though we know this isn’t the end of abortions throughout the United States, this is a massive step in significantly reducing them. We celebrate and...

This Weekend, We Celebrate Pentecost

In ancient Israel, there were three annual festivals that Jewish males were required to attend: the Feast of Passover, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles (Exod 23:14-17; Deut 16:16). The Feast of Weeks (also referred to as the Festival of Harvest) was...

Understanding The Day of Ascension

“He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.” Acts 1:3 For many of us, Easter ended a long time ago. Forty days ago, to be exact. It’s a distant memory, and now our...