I live with five women. My wife and four daughters. And the word in our house lately is delulu. Short for delusional. It means you are holding onto something the rest of the room has already decided is not going to happen. Here is what I did not expect. The longer I sat with that word, the more I realized it is exactly what the world says about the Church. About every believer who still genuinely expects Jesus to come back. Peter warned us this was coming. Mockers would say: where is the promise? Nothing ever changes. Everything just keeps going the way it always has. But the people calling us delulu forgot about the empty tomb. And that changes everything. Read the full post.  Read More

Peter said he loved Jesus three times. Every time Jesus responded the same way. Not good, I forgive you. He said feed my lambs. The restoration and the assignment arrived in the same moment. You are loved and you are sent. Most of us have accepted the love and are still sitting on the beach. Love for Jesus always has a direction. And it always moves toward someone else.  Read More

The prophet Ezekiel saw a river flowing out from the Temple in Jerusalem. A trickle at first. Then ankle deep. Then deep enough to swim in. And everywhere it went, things came back to life. Even the Dead Sea turned fresh. Jesus stood at the Temple during the water ceremony and said: that river is Me. And everyone who believes in Me becomes part of it. The question is not whether resurrection power lives inside you. If you belong to Jesus, it does. The question is whether it is moving. Because the river was never designed to stay at the source. Read the full post.  Read More

Want to go deeper? This blog expands on the message preached on April 19 at GracePointe. Watch the full message at https://gpnaz.church/media. There is a character in C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew named Uncle Andrew.He is present at the creation of Narnia. He is standing there when Aslan, the great lion who represents Christ, opens his mouth and sings the world into existence. Stars appear. Mo...  Read More

Want to go deeper? This blog expands on the message preached on April 19 at GracePointe. Watch the full message at https://gpnaz.church/media."He told them, 'The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and b...  Read More

Want to go deeper? This blog expands on the message preached on April 19 at GracePointe. Watch the full message at https://gpnaz.church/media. I want to ask you a question I didn't have time to ask Sunday.Who in your life is currently walking away from Jerusalem?Because that is what the road to Emmaus actually is. It's not a scenic route. It's a retreat. Two people who had given everything to a ho...  Read More

For over a century, the Hatfield and McCoy families turned the Appalachian hills into a war zone.  Read More

You were not meant to survive the week. You were sent into it. Here's what that actually looks like.  Read More

What does an empty tomb have to do with your Monday morning? More than you think."  Read More

Most of us have a "junk drawer" in our house filled with things we don’t use but can't quite toss—old chargers, mystery keys, and expired coupons. We do the same thing with our hearts. We return to old wounds, expired relationships, and past versions of ourselves, wondering why we feel stuck. But Easter reminds us that God isn't looking for us in the graveyard of our past. Discover why it’s time to stop tending to what’s gone and start facing the "new thing" God is doing right now.  Read More

In the most significant moment in human history—just after defeating death and stepping out of the tomb—Jesus did something unexpected. He didn't rush to the palace or the temple; He stopped for one weeping woman who didn't even recognize Him. Before He revealed His glory, He tended to her grief. If you’ve ever felt like your pain is too small for a big God, Mary Magdalene’s story proves otherwise. Explore how the Risen Savior meets us by name in the middle of our mess.  Read More

This is a companion blog to our Sunday message, “Deeper Through Sacrifice.” If you were with us on Sunday, consider this the bonus material. If you missed it, this will still meet you right where you are.On Sunday, we explored a word that changed the way I understand everything about sacrifice. The Hebrew word korban, which we usually translate as “sacrifice”, doesn’t actually mean “something give...  Read More