There’s a lot of talk these days about gender equality. But that was not the case in the first-century world that Jesus was born into. Women were routinely treated as second-class citizens with diminished rights and respect.  Read More

In Luke 7, Jesus does something incredible. He goes out of His way to raise the only son of a widow from the dead. Here, we see His great compassion for us in the midst of our suffering, and we see His great authority (authority even over life and death!) on display.  Read More

Have you ever stopped to think what it would take to truly impress Jesus? I mean, He created everything that ever was! He existed before all things and holds everything together (Col. 1:17) so could there really be anything here on earth that would honestly impress or amaze Him?  Read More

We were walking out of Walmart when she approached us. Right away, we could tell she was quite different from us in every way. She asked for a ride home across town, but it was obvious she needed so much more than that.  Read More

Charlie Taylor is not a familiar name to most, but if you were to ask his friends, they probably would have described him as a quiet man who loved mechanical things. Some others considered him a mechanical genius even though he dropped out of school at the age of twelve and went to work for the Nebraska State Journal in their processing department. It was at this job that he encountered two men who challenged him to do more, and who then recruited him to their company. These two men were none other than Orville and Wilbur Wright, the “Fathers of Flight.”  Read More

James K.A. Smith says, “we can’t not be desiring some kingdom”.[1] Woven into the fabric of our existence is a longing for how we ought to live and how the world around us ought to be. Smith suggests that we are all driven by this desire or longing, so the question he poses is what kingdom do we desire or “what do we love”?  Read More