Everyday Comfort

2 Cor 1:3-7 reminds us that God is the ‘Father of compassion and God of all comfort.’ Comfort means the easing of pain or constraint or the alleviation of distress or anguish. At different stages of our lives, it’s represented by different things: a...

Mountain-top experiences

Dave spoke this morning on the Transfiguration of Jesus (Mark 9:2-9). So many people seem to crave physical transformation these days through cosmetic surgery and Botox; Michael Jackson, for example, was transformed by plastic surgery, but in essence, this only deals...

Strength through weakness

One of the hardest things for us to accept is that in God’s kingdom, strength often comes through brokenness. None of us like being broken. We want to be whole; we strive for wholeness and completeness. We want to be strong. The world tells us that we can only be...