Rube Goldberg machines are amazing, aren’t they? Watching the series of chain reactions can be fascinating, even if they often end up accomplishing something rather mundane. But that is the appeal of these machines; it isn’t as much what they accomplish, but rather seeing how each action causes the next. In this week’s session, we will see how sin...

We are a fractured people. And by that, I mean both as Americans and as the church. All you need to do is spend a few minutes on Twitter to see how true this is. Politics divide us. Secondary theological issues divide us. We can’t even agree on how to love and care for a lost and hurting world....

When we think of a human’s basic needs—what a person needs to survive—we often think of water, food, and shelter. Give me something to drink and eat and a roof, and I can live indefinitely, right? Well, not really. It turns out that another basic human need is love. We need to be loved to live. Our Need of...

I love Gru in the Despicable Me films. Yes, I would want to talk like him if I could (although King Julian from the Madagascar movies might edge him out), but it is more than that. Gru is such a great antihero. If you are  a fan of Gru like I am, we cannot forget that he is a villain—or at...

I am a father of three. Each of my kids—Joshua, Hannah, and Caleb—is a gift from God; a blessing beyond measure. One of my recurring prayers is that my children easily exceed anything I have done to bring God glory in my life. Or put a different way—a more proper way—I pray that God uses my kids to glorify...

I’m just going to come out and say this up front: we live in a culture with an upside down view of gender. Sure, I am talking about how our culture has rejected binary gender, but I’m not talking about just that. As a culture, we are a people who also are failing to respect and honor both genders...