Our natural intuition can give us only a God like us. The God revealed in Scripture deconstructs our intuitive predilections and startles us with one whose infinitude of perfections is matched by His infinitude of gentleness.

While Metanoia’s in-prison, in-person mentor ministry is on hold, its correspondence discipleship program is in higher demand than ever.

There is power in telling and hearing stories — especially in suffering.

Across the denomination — in this time that’s unlike anything any church planter has ever seen — new churches have faced unique challenges. Many have found ways to reinvent themselves. They are also wondering if they will survive.

This sense that work is nearly impossible combines with the heightened perception of my sin to create a bitter and depressing potion. So what now?

The weight of heartache can crush us or become a point of connection with a weary world in desperate need of hope — now more than ever. Not all who suffer will find healing in this life. That is the bruising reality of our fallen world.

Feeling out of control feels dangerous. As Christians, it forces us to decide whether we believe God is sovereign over the affairs of humanity, and if He is good no matter our suffering.

Photographer Reed Schick captures the loneliness, and the hope, of one Tennessee neighborhood’s pandemic experience.

We can flee for refuge to the One who is our Mighty Fortress. Like Isaiah wrote, there is a time for us to “enter our chambers, shut our doors,” and wait until “the fury passes by.” Why should we think that God would ask less of this generation than He has of our mothers and fathers?

The world is watching. They want to see if Jesus really makes a difference in how a person suffers what is unbearable and loses what is valuable.