Paid I paid some bills yesterday checks written envelopes stamped went online to pay distant accounts went to the market paid for my sustenance drugstore had my medication paid there too walked crowded sidewalks paying emotionally for my impatience paid the next day for a sleepless night I seem to pay all day every day but it is not true there was a debt my mountainous debt a heavy unbearable weight ten thousand years of work with all the perfection I could muster... Read More

I was not designed to be on my own to author my own story to compose my own rules to live with me in the center. I was not designed to look for life outside of You to treasure the creation to love people, places, and things more than You. I was not designed to rely on my wisdom to trust my imagination to rely on my thoughts to ignore Your revelation. I was not designed to follow the path of my craving to be enslaved to my desires to be ruled by my passions more than I... Read More

I hope that your church pulled out all the stops for a raucous celebration of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Without this historic event and the promise it gives us, “we are of all people most to be pitied” (1 Corinthians 15:19). We should absolutely make Easter Sunday the biggest and best date on the calendar! But what will you do with Easter now that Easter Sunday is over? What will you do with Easter when a particular area of sin looks attractive to you, and... Read More

I love Easter Sunday. I love the celebratory music we sing at church. I love the passages of Scripture we read during worship. Most of all, I love the visual image of the Empty Tomb. In one culminating and specific moment in history, Jesus Christ summarizes and finalizes the salvation narrative. There are six things in particular that I love about the Empty Tomb. 1. The Empty Tomb reveals that God is faithful. Centuries earlier, after Adam and Eve rebelled, God promised that he... Read More