Let God Be Your New Year’s Resolution
- December 27, 2023
- by
- Whitney Hsu
I’ve never been very good at making resolutions or setting goals, of any sort, really. I mean, I’ve made fitness goals in the short-term, followed training plans, and managed to keep up with diet goals for a few weeks at a time. As a student, I set goals for grades per semester and usually managed to achieve them. But as far as general life goals, New Year’s Resolutions, or the like, I don’t even bother to set them. It’s scary to me, to put a date on the calendar and pretend to think...
Year End Giving
- December 27, 2023
- by
- Ivan Moore
When is a good time to talk about giving? Now that I’ve not only been attending church, but have worked for the church for...
The Miracle of Technology
- December 14, 2021
- by
- Ned Erickson
When you look at the history of, say, the world, one of the most important instigators to transformation has been the way we communicate....
Still Waters
- November 12, 2021
- by
- Ned Erickson
I went on this silent retreat. Two things I don’t like. Silence and retreating. But there I was doing both. I went down by...
Who is this God I Depend Upon?
- October 26, 2021
- by
- Lori Travers
Have you ever concluded a prayer time with the tag-on, “In Jesus’ Name”? Yeah, me too. I mean sometimes I pray, and beg, and...
Un-Do
- October 26, 2021
- by
- Ned Erickson
I’m the kind of guy who can’t sit still. When I go to a thing, I can’t just go there, I need a purpose,...
Out of Control?
- October 10, 2021
- by
- Ned Erickson
I was so freaking stressed. Has that ever happened to you? Being so freaking stressed? Well, it was happening to me a few weeks...
All In
- September 15, 2021
- by
- Ned Erickson
One summer, I took several high school friends of mine to British Columbia for a week of sea kayaking through the Princess Louisa Inlet....
Never My Love
- July 25, 2021
- by
- Lori Travers
This theme of God’s ever-loving presence keeps coming up lately. Sometimes I feel very alone, distant from others and distant from God. Although I’ve...
Dropping the Like
- July 01, 2021
- by
- Ned Erickson
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”
You’ve probably heard it before. You and I were created in the...