My family recently enjoyed a trip to Chattanooga. As I was standing down in the valley looking up at Lookout Mountain, I couldn’t help but marvel at how old that mountain must be. It’s ancient. But as we turn to Colossians 1:17, we read something staggering about Jesus Christ. It says there, “And he is…

Have you considered how significant Jesus’ vocation was? Before becoming a rabbi, He worked as a what? A carpenter. How fitting a profession because long before He was a carpenter in Nazareth, He was the builder of the entire universe. Now, that’s a massive claim, but that’s exactly what the Holy Spirit tells us through…

When it comes to God, we have a problem: He is invisible. We can’t see Him, touch Him, observe Him directly. And what we can’t see, we struggle to truly know, don’t we? We’re left with questions—Is there really a God? If so, what is He actually like? Can I trust Him? Does He care?…

Just the other night, I looked down at my phone, and the battery indicator said 1%. Of course, I needed to do something important on it. And so I made a mad dash for the living room charging spot, but as happens around my house with a wife and 5 kids, the charger was gone.…

In Apostle John’s Gospel, chapter 1, he pulls back the curtain on Christmas morning to reveal what really happened in Bethlehem. That baby wasn’t just born—He existed before time began. “In the beginning was the Word.” The One who spoke galaxies into existence took His first breath in a stable. The Creator became creation. Life…

When it came to Christmas, Love didn’t send a card. Love didn’t dispatch an ambassador. Love came in person. Caesar Augustus thought he was ordering a census. He didn’t realize he was positioning players for the greatest arrival in history. While an empire flexed its muscles, heaven held its breath. Then, in an unremarkable town,…

The Advent season continues, that ancient tradition of preparing our hearts to celebrate Christ’s birth. We now move into the fourth and final week, whose theme is love, and that will be our focus through Christmas at “Change Begins in You.” Before the stable, before the star, before the angels’ song—God loved you. “I have…

Today, we continue the third week of the Advent season with our focus on joy. Do you have all your plans together for where you’re going this Christmas? One of the best parts of the season is getting together with all your friends and loved ones and seeing them face to face. There’s so much…

Today, we continue the third week of the Advent season with our focus on joy. Don’t you just love the promises of God? In John 15:9-11, Jesus makes an extraordinary promise to his disciples: “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you…

The Advent season continues, that ancient tradition of preparing our hearts to celebrate Christ’s birth. We now move into the third week, whose theme is joy, and that will be our focus all week at “Change Begins in You.” Isaiah 35 provides a vivid description of the joy experienced by God’s redeemed people. We read…