As we kick off VBS week with a return to the night of Jesus' birth, we go backstage to meet the unnamed innkeeper in Bethlehem. Is this person really infamous? Many of us, even unintentionally, see the innkeeper in a negative light. After all, no one with a caring heart would relegate the young Mary to give birth among [...]

How will the church possibly manage in a culture that is not just non-Christian, but anti-Christian? We can never forget that Jesus is the head of the Church. Remember the little boy who provided 5 loaves and 2 fish with which Jesus fed 5000 plus people? What a great reminder that Jesus uses us and the resources around us [...]

As we meet Rahab this weekend, we find an incredible story of God’s grace in the most unlikely of lives. She was marginalized by the community around her. She was despised in the sight of anyone with an ounce of moral integrity. Yet Rahab was loved by God, included in the ancestry of Jesus Himself, and even raised up [...]

King Uzziah was one of the great kings of Judah. He walked in the ways of the Lord and was true to His Word until…he started to do things his own way. The Bible says that he fell to the sin of pride. One of the consequences of that pride was contracting leprosy. What started as so good turned [...]