• Crossing Over

    Reading Time: 5 minutes

    There are many crossings a human will make in a lifetime.
    Our introduction to life is just the first.
    From the dim, watery, stillness of the womb, we are thrust out into the bright light of day; into this dizzying kaleidoscope we call life. 
    Our lungs, filled with fluid and collapsed upon themselves like waxy, paper bags, suddenly inflate; as our intricately crafted nervous system reacts to the sudden change in temperature and environment. We breathe, for the…

  • Living Intentionally

    Reading Time: 5 minutes

    Life can be described as one long journey with many different paths and choices along the way. Like any kind of journey, the journey of life requires us to be aware, to plan, and to make decisions about how we’re going to reach our destination, looking for navigation points and signposts to guide us along the way.
    We could choose to relinquish any idea of intentionality, but approaching life in this haphazard, unplanned way makes the…

  • Regeneration + The Holy Spirit

    Reading Time: 9 minutes

    “Though outwardly we are wasting away, inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” | 2 Corinthians 4:16, NIV

    There can be a tendency to reduce the work of the gospel to simply to a culture of ‘making us nice’. That is to say, that being a Christian equates to a program of basic self-improvement. Yet there are plenty of nice people who aren’t Christians; people who do good things for others without having Jesus in…