Love Invites

April 6, 2025
Some people are confident—we kind of admire them.  Some are over-confident.  Confidence isn’t a bad thing—quite good, actually.  We need confidence daily, even when we don’t think about it, as…

Holy Now and Yet to Be

March 30, 2025
“It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins” (10:4).  So much, then, for the entire sacrificial system established in the first books in the Bible. …

Pray for Forgiveness

October 1, 2023
“It will always help us if we regard this world as organized not for our comfort but for our training.”[1]  So says our friend William Barclay.  The old saying was…

More Than Mourning

July 2, 2023
In Boston in 1770, Perez Morton penned these words: “When Jesus wept, the falling tear in mercy flowed beyond all bound.  When Jesus groaned, a trembling fear seized all the…