Faith Notes

Christians talk a lot about “the gospel.” We say we’ve “believed the gospel,” “preach the gospel,” “live by the gospel.” Yet if someone stopped you on the street and asked, What exactly is the gospel?, what would you say? Most of us would instinctively answer something like: Jesus died for my sins. And to that we add, "by Grace I am saved, I can go to heaven when I die." That is certainly part of the gospel. But it is not the whole gospel. And if we stop there, we end up with

Through both valleys that test us and tables that surprise us with abundance, the Shepherd’s care carves "The Lord is my Shepherd" deeper and deeper into us until they become not just a statement we recite, but a truth we know and live by.

The earth is the Lord’s. Every street, every soul, every space belongs to Him

The invitation of the Gospel is not just to believe what Jesus said or to behave as He did. It is to behold Him—again and again—and in that beholding, to be changed.

Jesus, more than anyone else, offers us what we desperately need — a listening ear and hand to hold.

Our understanding of who God will shape how we pray and our posture in prayer will either build us up, or it will tear us apart.

Trust is where our deepest need for God and his greatest desire for us intersect. And nurturing triumphant trust takes enduring trying times

What does it mean to follow Jesus in a time such as this when we are at the tipping point of what is becoming increasingly a global crisis?