Encouraging Words

With something as scary and unpredictable as a global pandemic, we shouldn’t be surprised when kids have trouble processing it all. In a sense, we are all like children experiencing this for the first time. We are all likely dealing with fear we aren’t talking about. One encouragement for us: God redeeming these otherwise dark […]

“The one who lives under the protection of the Most High dwells in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say concerning the Lord, who is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust: He himself will rescue you from the bird trap, from the destructive plague. He will cover you with […]

I’m just at the beginning of this journey called fatherhood; the oldest of our three kids will be five this coming October. It didn’t take five years, however, for my ongoing dependence on God’s grace to be further exposed. In order to be a godly earthly father, I need the sustaining, transforming grace of my […]

“But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?’” When the lawyer in Luke 10 tested Jesus by asking that question, he probably didn’t expect to hear what one of Jesus’ best known parables. The moral of his Good Samaritan story is that true neighborliness shows itself as mercy. The […]

We Baptists are a certain people. We are sure about our theology. We are sure about our ecclesiology. We are sure about the way we do things, or we’d belong to some other denomination, Baptists are fond of saying. As we have it all right, there’s no need to switch. But in the COVID season, […]