It wasn’t long before God looked upon Adam and said “this isn’t good”. Not that Adam wasn’t good, or that his situation was sinful…it just wasn’t TOV. Tov is a Hebrew word which carries the idea of perfect goodness, of life as it should be…of the life lived out in community. We were designed for ...

Why is your family so important to God?  The FAMILY unit forms people - it gives foundational experiences that we carry with us the rest of our lives and into the next generation. Moms, dads, brothers, and sisters were God's choice from the beginning to bless us and bless the world.  The FAMILY i...

We all know what it's like….to miss it. To miss a joke everyone is laughing at, to miss a train or a flight, and then to be forced to deal with the consequences. In these scenarios we are either the brunt of a joke or we find ourselves in an airport for longer than we’d like to be….but what about...

Who is it that we serve? Who do we worship? For the believer the answer sounds obvious…Jesus! Right?!!?! With our mouths we claim Christ, but what about our hearts? What consumes our thoughts? Our emotions? What are we most excited about? Most concerned about? Do our attitudes and actions prove t...

The hidden you. It is the man that - humanly speaking - only you know, sort of. Only you know him because he exists in the shadows, thinking things and doing things you can't really celebrate in the open because you battle him privately. David had a shadow self. The Apostle Paul has one too. ...