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...
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...
How to Talk to Your Kids About Gender Identity
“Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.” These words, written by G.K. Chesterton in 1905, may have seemed extreme at the time. However they have certainly, whether intentionally or...
Confession & Repentance (Ash Wednesday)
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the forty day season of Lent. Earlier this week we discussed the benefit of observing Lent. With the Spirit’s help, this season of self-denial helps us fight against our natural bent toward self-absorption and focus on our sin,...
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,...
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...