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
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