“Our disciplines do not make us acceptable to God because they are never long enough, deep enough, or frequent enough. ‘Enough’ isn’t a measure that works for an infinitely holy God.”

The foundation for trust in the Bible is its inspiration. A number of men over several centuries penned the words of Scripture, but the enduring constant is that God inspired every word.

Covenant is a promise that stretches from Genesis to Revelation: “I will be your God, you will be my people, I will live among you.”

Faith looks like knowing Christ, loving Christ, and trusting Christ in a way that is both active and growing.

We may be weak disciples or new disciples or struggling disciples, but we are all disciples.

We believe in freed will — that we have been freed to serve Christ and act as God’s children.

Jesus commands us to look beyond our own needs to actively serve people the way we’d like to be served — to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Many believers revel in their Christian liberty, while others shy away, worried that liberty too easily turns to license.

The icy cold hands of death reach out to all humanity, and humanity is enslaved to it. But the enslavement is not to death itself, but to the fear.

When children are born, they enter a dangerous world. Therefore, as we give our children in baptism, we are receiving a powerful gift of hope that God will be our child’s God.