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What Faithfulness Looks Like When Fear is in the Air – Part Two
Read part one of this post by clicking here. There are moments when we feel pressure to prove something. To clarify a position. To say the right words. To demonstrate relevance. But Scripture tells a different story. It tells us to remember. This is one of those moments. Fear has a way of exposing what we rely on. It reveals how…
Neighborhood Chaplaincy Blog The great theologian and philosopher Dallas Willard once wrote: We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny. God has placed you in a specific context – a family, a…
Reflection I’m grieved, and I also feel a responsibility to speak from proximity. Some of the people I call friends have walked the refugee and asylum journey firsthand. I’ve sat with those who were forced from their homes—not because they wanted to leave, but because staying was no longer possible. I’ve watched people fight for dignity while carrying grief, hope, and exhaustion all at once. Survival was…
Let it Be to Us According to Your Word
Today, our pastor asked staff a question: What part of the Advent season are you carrying with you into the year ahead? This Advent, I’ve been sitting with Mary (Luke 1:26–38), a young woman standing at a crossroads she did not choose. I’ve been pondering her response to the angel and the circumstances she found…
The church has always been most alive when it remembers that the gospel belongs to every people. From the beginning, the Spirit has pushed believers beyond their familiar worlds. The early church in Acts was born multiethnic, multi-lingual, and radically hospitable. That reality still calls to us today. Look around your own city. In Australia,…
I grew up in the Midwest, and I remember the first snow day when I was old enough to go shovel the drive. I layered up, put on some boots, and trudged outside to grabbed a snow shovel. In Texas, we don’t often shovel our driveways, but as a native Midwesterner, rest assured that even…
Jesus was a bit of a party animal. Well, that’s what the religious establishment of his day thought about him, and they had no qualms when it came to expressing their opinions about him. When Jesus responded to the criticism that he was a bit of party animal, he said, “The Son of Man came…
A Calling into His Presence
Humans have the unique privilege of being created with Imago Dei. The very image of our Creator is imprinted upon us. As a unique creation, we have a desire to find purpose and meaning in life unlike any other creature. Christians often define that meaning by discovering our calling. We seek our Spirit filled role…
Why Translation and Audio Access Matter for Heart Languages I’ve traveled to places where the gospel is alive in the air—and places where it feels like it hasn’t yet found its way into the language of the people. Time and time again, especially in West Africa, I’ve been confronted with a reality that’s easy to…
BWA’s World Congress was a stirring week, and as I continue to process everything that I encountered as I participated in this event, I continue to come back to Baptist World Alliance’s call for the global Baptist family to commit to joining in the Acts 2 Movement. One of Dr. Elijah Brown’s recurring statements at…