We don’t need to manufacture evidence that God is real. We trust God because we have experienced God’s trustworthiness. We have received grace. We’ve been forgiven. We’ve seen lives changed. We’ve experienced the Holy Spirit forming us into people who love differently, forgive differently, serve differently, and hope differently. So live from there.   Read More

Christian maturity doesn’t require us to choose between heartfelt worship and thoughtful worship. God desires the whole person. Mind and spirit. Understanding and affection. Truth and praise.   Read More

At the Lord's Table, social divisions were contradicting the gospel. Among the spiritual gifts, people were comparing importance and status. Paul's answer isn't to eliminate differences. It is to teach the Church how grace transforms the way different people belong to one another.   Read More

The Holy Spirit forms us into the likeness of Jesus not by making us identical, but by teaching very different people to love one another as members of the same Body. Pride gives way to service. Comparison gives way to gratitude. Independence gives way to mutual care.   Read More

Communion says something. When we gather around the Table, we proclaim that Jesus Christ gave himself for us. We remember a grace none of us earned. We receive together because every one of us comes empty-handed, dependent upon the same crucified and risen Lord. There’s no premium seat at this Table.   Read More

Our gifts come from God. Our place in the Body comes from God. Our freedom comes from God. The grace that makes us one people comes from God. That means nobody enters worship with permission to diminish someone else whom God has called, gifted, and welcomed.   Read More