Who is Christ?

Last Sunday, I had the privilege of hearing Blake Clickner give a sermon on the identity and common misconceptions of the person of Christ Jesus. Christians are commonly challenged with the question, “Who is Christ?” When I was a child, I easily accepted...

Hearing His Voice

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.”— John 10:27-28 My grandfather owned about 1,000 acres of cattle ranch in...

Why Choose Darkness?

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”— John 8:12 What is darkness, but the absence of light? What is sin, but the absence of...

The Impossible Loving Standard

All of humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike, find ourselves continually striving to live by an invisible standard and continually falling short. Without God, we find it’s much like fighting to swim upstream, becoming exhausted, floating with the current...

Strengthening Our Walls

“…Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and the burned ones at that?” — Nehemiah 4:2 Sometimes our lives become heaps of rubbish. What was once a beautiful, pristine wall of our own making turns into a pile of burned bricks...

Have You Met My King?

Have you met my King? Yes, that one over there. No, not that one with the royal clothing. The other one. Keep looking. No, not that handsome one. The plain one. (Isaiah 53:2) Keep looking. No, not that wealthy one. The one with no home, no land and no army. (Matthew...