This is our third—and final!—week online. That’s right: we’re back to the gathered assembly next Sunday, December 13! But today is not December 13. Today we are in our #scatteredassembly. We still worship a God who is worthy of worship, whether we can assemble together or we must stay home. Today is also the second…

Unity without diversity isn’t really unity—it’s sameness. Diversity, whether ethnic or socio-economic or simply diversity of thought will, inevitably, bring conflict. It is impossible for a group of people who spend significant time together to go very long without some form of conflict arising. Apart from the truly rare malevolent intent, such conflict is nearly…

We’re in week two of our #scatteredassembly. Let’s continue to pray for an end to this virus! Though we cannot meet together for another week or two (Lord willing), let us worship our God nevertheless! Though we are unable to gather together we are able to worship our great God together by singing in our…

As we read through Scripture—especially the epistles—we can begin to detect certain patterns by authors. John, for example, loves symbolism. We see this throughout Revelation, but also in the Gospel of John. At the end of chapter 2, for example, John writes that Jesus didn’t entrust himself to those who “followed” him on account of…