As a white American, I’ve heard it a number of times: “Why do we have a ‘Black History Month’? We don’t have a ‘White History Month’”. Perhaps you’ve heard it, too, or even have said or wondered such a thing. Rather than address the issue from the perspective of American history I want to address…

“Christmas is God’s invitation to enter into his peace. We can enter into his peace through the door that is open to each one of us. We can begin to see things from his perspective knowing that even as the waves of this life wash over us, all suffering has an expiration date.” -Jt RichardsNew…

Christmas is celebrated on December 25. Because of our calendar, this date occurs on different days of the week. About every seven years Christmas falls on a Sunday. It averages every seven years but Sunday Christmases follow a 28-year pattern: it occurs on a Sunday, then again in eleven years, then six years, five years,…

All followers of Jesus want to honor the Lord. Our common confession is “Jesus is Lord”—which means Caesar is not, and neither are we. Because Jesus is Lord and because our hearts are turned to him in faith, we desire to honor him. This necessarily impacts how we live our lives. Inevitably, then, the question…

A friend who serves another church recently told me about some folk who have decided to break fellowship with that church because he was not taking a public stand on the upcoming election here in Michigan. Because he did not publicly advocate for a particular issue on the ballot, they were choosing to break fellowship…