Our Goal Is Love

God promised Abraham a nation, and then more than ten years passed with nothing to show for it. Sarah was still barren and well past the age when any of it made sense. So she did what most of us do when a promise runs...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident." Most Americans can recite the line without thinking about it. But few have paused to deeply consider what our founding document actually declares. Fewer still have held these...

If God is all-loving and all-powerful, why does suffering exist? It's one of the oldest objections to faith, and atheist voices like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have built careers on it. But...

When Sebastian Berhalter made the U.S. World Cup roster, his father, former USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter, wrote him a letter. As Sebastian read it on camera last week, he couldn't get through it without crying, undone by...

<p>This season marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. <br/><br/>While we celebrate the birth of our nation on July 4th, if you remember your history, you know the founding was anything but...

<p>Sometime in the fourth century, a monk sat in the Egyptian desert and made a list of every way the human soul could go wrong. That list became the seven deadly sins, and for 1,500 years, through the fall of Rome, the...

<p>Ella Langley recently made history as the first woman to hold the top two spots on the Hot Country Songs chart for multiple weeks — surpassing Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, who each did it for one. The song at number one...

<p>Baseball lost one of its giants this week. Bobby Cox—Hall of Famer, fourteen consecutive division titles, one World Series ring, and. . . 162 ejections—died Saturday at the age of eighty-four. Tributes poured in from...

<p>Every parent carries a question they can never quite put down. What will my child be in the future, and how do I prepare them for whatever is waiting on the other side of our home?<br/><br/>Any mother who loves their...

<p>This Sunday we wrap up our Axioms series with one of the most practical principles we've explored yet: Decisions are made in small groups and confirmed in large ones. <br/><br/>Every church has felt the tension that...

<p>This Sunday we continue our journey through Ephesians as Paul addresses an important question for our church—why do we exist. Paul’s answer, and the implications, will likely surprise you. <br/><br/>This is moving...

<p>We live in a culture absolutely obsessed with purpose. There are entire sections of Barnes & Noble dedicated to helping you find yours. Personality tests that tell you whether you're an INTJ or an Enneagram 4. TED...

<p>Our life is rooted in belief.</p><p>The question is—whose?</p><p>Most of us have never stopped long enough to ask where our deepest convictions actually came from. We inherited them. Absorbed them. And somewhere...

<p>"Have you been living under a rock?"<br/><br/>That's essentially what two heartbroken travelers asked Jesus as they walked the dusty road to Emmaus together. <br/><br/>Of course, they had no idea it was him. As far...