When the River Can’t Save You

When the River Can’t Save You

Nahum 3:8-10 “Are you better than No-Amon, that sat by the Nile, with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, and whose wall was the sea? Ethiopia put her strength in her, and Egypt also, without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers. Yet she was...

The Joy That Shelters Us

“Do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”— Nehemiah 8:10 The Tears at the Water Gate I picture myself standing in the middle of Jerusalem’s ruins, dust swirling around my feet. The walls are up again, but inside, the people are worn thin—tired,...

Stewardship and the Trap of a Self-Made Life

As we step into a brand-new topic, let’s look at a familiar story from the Gospels. It completely flips our cultural assumptions about stewardship upside down. In Luke 12:13–21, a man completely interrupts Jesus. Christ is in the middle of teaching a crowd about...