Throughout Scripture ashes are associated with mourning and lament and repentance. At the end of the book of Job, after God has made it clear to Job that his ways are higher than Job’s, that Job cannot comprehend the barest fraction of what God is doing, Job said to the Lord, I had heard of…

Each Christmas we’re reminded of the question: “What Child is this?” We share gifts and meals. We see family members we haven’t seen in a while. We say “Merry Christmas” to strangers as we rush to beat them into the line at the store. We feel warm and fuzzy. Christmas is about asking the question,…

The earliest Christians lived with a profound sense the Lord could return any day. In the early years of the church after the apostles, this expectation resulted in a weekly cycle of worshiping on the Lord’s Day—Sunday. Life was oriented around this experience of the gathered assembly. The church also met at other times and…

You’re being lied to. So am I. We are lied to all the time, yet we frequently fall for the lie for there is something in us that desperately wants the lie to be true. It is not. It never was. It never will be. Let me give you some backstory, but first, some backstory…