Posts with the category “grace”

When It Felt Like SilenceEarly in our marriage, Vic and I found ourselves in a financial hole we’d dug one necessary purchase at a time. Credit card debt, tight margins, and the kind of low-grade anxi...  Read More

A reflection on the cross, borrowed trust, and finding Jesus under the rubble.I've seen a lot of crosses in my life. On necklaces. On church walls. On Sundance Mountain. Familiar enough that it's easy...  Read More

Some passages of Scripture don’t let you stay comfortable. James 5 is one of them. It’s blunt, it’s prophetic, and it has a way of landing exactly where we don’t want it to.I want to tell you a story ...  Read More

The God Who Sees UsHave you ever felt invisible?Not unnoticed in a casual way, but deeply unseen. Like you're carrying something heavy and no one quite realizes the weight of it. You show up. You keep...  Read More

Finding Peace in the DarknessIt's 3:47 a.m. You've been staring at the ceiling for an hour, replaying yesterday's conversation for the seventeenth time. Tomorrow's meeting? You've already imagined twe...  Read More

If I’m honest, judgment usually shows up quietly, sneaking in and presenting itself like a friend. It’s rarely loud or dramatic. More often, it sounds like a quick thought I don’t even mean to have. I...  Read More

This week’s sermon, “Be Humble, Don’t Cheat,” is part of our series from the book of James. It begins with a face-to-face tension every Christian lives in: how do we stay faithful to God while living ...  Read More

Explore James 3 and the power of the tongue. Learn how words reveal the heart, shape faith, and why we all need a bridle on our speech....  Read More

As we’ve spent time in James 2 over the past couple of weeks, we can see that it meets us where we actually live in our relationships, our choices, our assumptions, and our blind spots. James doesn’t ...  Read More