Let us waste our lives on Jesus. He’s worthy. He’s supremely lovely. He’s THE treasure of the universe. And nothing poured out at his feet will ever be lost.

So where’s the rule book for handling these moments of home-ministry conflict? What should you do when your kids are sick the week of the women’s retreat? When someone in your small group calls you in desperation while your in-laws are in town? When your pastor asks you to take on another task when you’re barely making it through the laundry?

We are a chosen race! A royal priesthood! A holy nation! A people for his own possession! But why? Why have we been joined together as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ? To proclaim something. But not just anything…

What do you do when the promises of God invoke pain, not comfort?

Ultimately, election season should remind us of the great privilege it is to have a say in who governs us. But even as I cast my vote this week, I remember that ultimately God will decide who wins and who loses.

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We were made to know God. So how do we live that out in the day-to-day? How do we know a God we cannot see? How do we foster a friendship with a God we cannot sit across from?

What can we do when evil seems to be winning? When corruption is the norm? When chaos and conflict surround us? How do we push back the darkness? The answer is simple and surprising.

What is required to have a friendship with God? To know him personally? Looking at the woman at the well in John 4 we'll look at (1) what Jesus offers, (2) what Jesus reveals, and (3) who Jesus is.

How can you know if you truly know God? This message addresses 3 counterfeit forms of knowing God and how you can know if you have the real thing.

We naturally gravitate to five-step plans or self-help advice to bring about change in our own lives. But Kelly Needham reminds us that lasting transformation comes not as we follow a to-do list, but as we walk with a Person.

What can we do in this time of isolation? Of course we should still strive to do life together, even if that means through Zoom, FaceTime, texting, phone calls, and letters. None of us can make it through this alone! But I think there is more we can do. This quarantine is giving us time to do two things that will greatly strengthen our communities.

Numbers is truly one of my favorite books of the Bible and I always get excited as I finish up Leviticus and turn to those opening lines, “Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai…” Sure, it opens with lots of… you guessed it… numbers. But this book is action-packed and full of key events in Israel’s history.

At the heart of the Christmas story are two pregnant women: Elizabeth who is pregnant with John the Baptist and Mary who is pregnant with Jesus. But this is no fairy tale for these women. They never got their “designer lives,” the lives they had hoped and planned for themselves.

How does the gospel inform our friendships? What is friendship according to Christ? While the Bible doesn’t speak as directly to friendship as it does to marriage and family, that doesn’t mean it has nothing to say.

If I asked you to list some signs of healthy friendship, I doubt you’d name conflict as one of them. Most of us treat conflict like an uncomfortable relative, something we have to deal with every now and then but, generally, to be avoided at all costs. But, in my experience, conflict is not an ugly stepsister to be avoided but a necessary ally in our pursuit of real friendship.

Not every adopted child will grieve the loss of their biological family the same way, but every adopted child will feel this loss. And it doesn’t serve them well for us to ignore that reality.

Hope creates tension. It inserts a longing for a future reality that is totally secure but not yet accessible. Because our hope is not yet realized.

Rebuke stings. But it also corrects and redirects, and we’re right to respond wisely.

How can we work to create an environment where deep and meaningful friendships can form? This is exactly the question I was hoping to address at a women's event at my church recently. In this post you can listen to my talk on How to Cultivate Community.