When the bottom falls out when chaos becomes normal when justice gets twisted when innocents die when leaders fail when answers grow complicated when actions seem futile when grief overwhelms when the fog of confusion descends when loved ones ask, but I have no reply when I taste my tears when events sicken my stomach when I’d rather not see than see then I remember you then I run to your temple then I open my eyes to your majesty then I preach to myself of... Read More

When injustice assaults again when image-bearers die again when grieving mothers mourn again when communities lament again when eyes are closed again when backs are turned again when right takes a hit again when business as usual returns again when accountability is questioned again when narratives are twisted again when anger rises again when hope dims again then we remember again the kings of earth do not hold our hope they will fail us again they will compromise... Read More

There is a time to celebrate and a time to lament. There is a time to rejoice and a time to weep. There is a time to sing and a time to scream. There is a time to laugh and a time to cry. There is time to speak and a time to meditate. There is a time to feast and a time to fast. There is a time to count your blessings and a time to count your losses. There is a time to listen and a time to act. There is a time to build your house and a time to offer it to others. There is a... Read More

Download This Video Transcript (this transcript has been lightly edited for readability) I don't know about you, but I would imagine you're like me. I miss Sunday mornings. I love Sunday mornings. I love gathering with God's people. I love the greetings. I love the pre-service conversations. I love hearing somebody next to me singing the gospel into my ears. I love the preaching of God's word as we walk our way through a portion of Scripture. I love the... Read More

Download This Video Transcript (this transcript has been lightly edited for readability) Well, in my own study, I came across, again one of my favorite Psalms. I love the Psalms. I think one of the functions of the Psalms is to keep us honest about the difficult realities of life in the fallen world, about our struggles of faith, about the range of emotions that we'll experience, about all of, sometimes God confuses us. Sometimes we come to Him with deep abiding... Read More

Download This Video Transcript (this transcript has been lightly edited for readability) The plan of God, the purposes of God, the move of redemption marches on. Nothing can stop God's plan. And as I was thinking about this, I was thinking that, in this moment, calls us as God's people beyond survival, beyond our own safety, it calls us once again to remember that we are not just the recipients of God's work of redemption, we're the instruments of that work as... Read More

Download This Video Transcript (this transcript has been lightly edited for readability) I was thinking again the other day how the cross of Jesus Christ teaches us that God is able to take very bad things and produce very good things out of them. And I was thinking how we should, in the midst of this pandemic that all of us are dealing with and the lockdown that maybe is driving all of us crazy with all of its political and economic and relational and church implications, we... Read More

Download This Video Transcript (this transcript has been lightly edited for readability) As I, like you, have been living through this global pandemic that has occupied so much of our thinking and our emotions and has restructured our living, I thought of the two pathways of response that the Bible calls us to all the time, and how helpful these responses are for us in this moment. First, the Bible calls us to mourn, to weep. We have reason to weep in this moment. We... Read More