Kevin Steyer

A Lesson from a Tibetan Immigrant

A couple of weeks ago, when my parents were in town, we visited a market with different stalls selling different foods from different countries. One

Sam Hardman

Bent Inward

One tragic and paradoxical consequence of the Fall is this: we have become bent inward, seeing the whole world only with reference to our own wills and desires and

Sam Hardman

Suffering: Friend or Enemy?

It’s an interesting question, don’t you think? Is suffering the Christian’s friend or is it an enemy? We all have to deal with this question in some

Sam Hardman

I Have Quieted My Soul

I am looking out my kitchen window this morning at a lovely, delicate snowfall that is covering the world – at least my little corner of it – with a dusting

Kevin Steyer

Whatsoever Things are Lovely

As I was reading a post by a contemporary theologian*, I came across a sentence that expressed something I believe with every fiber of my being: “One can

Sam Hardman

The Babylon Bee and Elon Musk

The Babylon Bee recently did a wide-ranging interview with Elon Musk that stretched over the better part of two hours. For any who don’t know, The

Sam Hardman

An Unwelcome Friend

Is there such a thing? The phrase sounds rather oxymoronic, “unwelcome friend.” But we all know in our hearts, I suppose, that such a word pairing actually

Kevin Steyer

Citizens of Heaven

Over the last several weeks I have spent many hours going through the process of transferring all of my documents from New York to Pennsylvania. I first called Geico

Kevin Steyer

Poison Turns to Balm

Jesus made it clear that some in the world will hate us. If they hated Jesus without cause, they will also hate His disciples without cause. Of course, there is in

Sam Hardman

The Pain and Pleasure of Having Pretensions Exposed

I suppose we all struggle with self-awareness. There is an image that we want to project to the world – a way that we want to be

Sam Hardman

Peace Amid Chaos

Picture this: “And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But [Jesus] was in the stern, asleep on

Sam Hardman

Loving and Knowing

No doubt the use of the verb “to know” as the favored way of describing sexual intimacy in the Bible must seem an oddity to the modern Western mind. “Now Adam

Sam Hardman

A Prayer for Times of Weariness

Lord, you have bid the weary to come to you,

And in my weariness I come.

The pilgrimage through this world is so often hard,

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Following is a letter written by an adult daughter in our congregation to her father. It is published here as an encouragement to you to reach out similarly to someone in your life that God has used

Sam Hardman

A Bit of True Religion

Imagine this: You are responsible for 350 children in Nigeria, all of whom have either been orphaned or are from impoverished families. You have built an

David Feister

The Joy of the Harvest

Tuesday is harvest day. That’s when we pull the most mature lettuce plants out of the aquaponics system, rinse off the roots, and bag the leafy greens to

Sam Hardman

“It Was the Best of Times”

Those are the opening words of Charles Dickens’ famous novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set at the time of the French Revolution. They have been borrowed

Kevin Steyer

On Singleness

The Church needs to recover the value placed on singleness which is so obviously revealed both in the Bible and in the majority of the history of the Church. First, the

Sam Hardman

Captured by the Stew

Once, in a land far away, there was a lovely little vegetable garden, happily growing in fertile bottomland. It was close enough to a fresh, clean, little country

Sam Hardman

Seeing with Spiritual Eyes

All of us have, in one way or another, had the experience of having a firmly held perspective on a situation or person or idea shattered by new information