I was a memory-verse A-lister, Bible trivia ace pastor’s kid. A crisis of faith brought me to read Scripture anew.

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The eerie thing was, as I gazed upward at the brilliant spectacle, the immediate darkness in which I stood was just as ...

Advent reminds us that no matter how dark we might sense the world to be, we are known and seen by the God who so wonderfully ...

A friend’s request for a rent check called my dual loyalties into question. Both parties are enmeshed in an ongoing identity ...

E.M. Welcher is the pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Vermillion, South Dakota. He is the author of Advent: A Thread in the ...

What darkness envelops you today? Perhaps it’s the long winter months we find ourselves in, the overwhelming expectations of ...

That is Advent’s promise, one Christ’s birth made manifest as “the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John ...

Christmastime has arrived in all its luster, but I’m having one of those nights when sleeping has become a wild ambition. The ...

I live in that dark land. I am both a creation and a creator of it. Yet if I admit that the darkness dwells within me, I am ...

The answer is as clear and serious as the noonday sun: because Jesus is real. The incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ, is our ...

After the show was over, again there was no vestibule to ease ourselves out of darkness and into the light of day. The sun ...