The Safe House and the Sacred Center

Reclaiming What Burnout Steals We live in the era of the beautifully paneled life. We have curated digital spaces, optimized routines, and noise-canceling headphones to block out the chaos of the world. After seasons of instability, personal trauma, or prolonged stress, our natural human instinct is to build a fortress. We retreat into self-preservation, focusing…

The Double-Edged Sword of Radical Skepticism

It is a fascinating observation. You’ve spotted a major logical “glitch” in Michael R. Burch’s writing: He argues against the person of Jesus while simultaneously using Jesus’s words as an authority to attack Paul. This approach is common in highly critical or “anti-theist” writing. It’s not necessarily a sign of clinical confusion, but rather a…

The Common Need

jamesmacdonald.com And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need (Acts 2:44–45, ESV). One characteristic of God’s family is an inherent willingness to give. The believers in the early church “had all things in common” (Acts 2:44). This…

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Psalm 19:14

“May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.”

4 Feasts We Eat Every Week at Church

4 Feasts We Eat Every Week at Church November 23, 2023 by: Kristen Wetherell One Sunday Morning I walked through the doors of our church with my kids running ahead of me, excited to find their daddy (who is the pastor). It might have been hard to get there that morning, but it was worth…