by Steve Reeves Twenty seven years ago my wife gave birth in a hallway between the labor and the delivery rooms. Birth is a time of transition. That baby born in 1984 is now serving in full-time ministry with the same congregation I serve. In Joshua 1, Moses’ leadership gives way to the leadership of […]
by Steve Reeves After facing bankruptcy, Ulysses S. Grant sold firewood on street corners to make ends meet. When war broke out, his application to join the army was rejected. He finally took a job selling bread to the army. He was an unlikely candidate to become the leader of the Union Army and President […]
by John Hampton Several years ago Academy award winning actor and 1970s heartthrob Robert Redford directed a movie titled A River Runs Through It. The movie is based on a true story about two brothers who grew up in rural Montana. One rebels against his father, a Presbyterian preacher, while the other is a compliant […]
by John Hampton All of us ache for a better world. Would you agree? Every day we see headlines about suffering, senseless violence, and oppression. There is a restlessness in every human heart that instinctively longs for something more. C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity, Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those […]
by John Hampton The church on earth should look like the church in Heaven. And what does the church in Heaven look like? The apostle John answers that for us in Revelation 7:9: “After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people […]
