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Resolving Conflict in Matthew 18
Life is too precious, and our gospel work too serious, to be sidetracked by personal offenses that we’ve allowed to grow deep roots in our
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Wesley Arning
- Aug 14
- 7 min
Jacob's Lesson on Aging Well
The task of the second half of life is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. Up to this point, everything has been mere
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Wesley Arning
- Jul 9
- 7 min
Transforming Delight
The gospel is actually really persuasive. Shame on us as the church if we have ever made the Good News of Jesus boring and dull because
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Wesley Arning
- Jun 25
- 9 min
Jesus the Great Divider
What we prioritize, both great and small, shape the life of the disciple, and as much as it makes us fidget in our pew this morning, Jesus
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Wesley Arning
- Jun 18
- 8 min
Abraham's Guests
And so, whether you can have children or not, that hopeless and lonely feeling is the link that connects these women with each of us; their
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Wesley Arning
- Apr 24
- 8 min
Ezra & The Remnant
Babylon could’ve become a graveyard for their people, their history, and their faith, but a miracle happened—Babylon actually became a time
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Wesley Arning
- Apr 9
- 9 min
The Race to Galilee
Jerusalem may have been where Jesus died, but Galilee is where he lived. By summoning the disciples back home, Jesus is bringing them out
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Wesley Arning
- Feb 22
- 7 min
Being Decent on Ash Wednesday
In a few moments, we will come up to the altar rail to receive this humbling reminder, but notice that we do something strange in this
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Wesley Arning
- Feb 5
- 8 min
The Power of Place
When it comes to being faithful stewards of creation and the ground on which we stand, it appears that our first act is to open our eyes and
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Wesley Arning
- Jan 30
- 6 min
Sublime Religion in Micah 6
When rooted to the simple, yet transformational, call of the Gospel, religion can only be sublime because, in some strange way, we are
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Wesley Arning
- Jan 1
- 7 min
What's in a Name?
Many times, we have allowed the names we have given ourselves, or the ones people have given us, to shape us in tremendous (and many times
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Wesley Arning
- Nov 20, 2022
- 6 min
The Art of Gratitude
For us today, gratitude is not three easy steps away. Instead, it is a natural reaction to the God who provides…whose provision is so
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Wesley Arning
- Aug 7, 2022
- 7 min
Faith of a Stranger: Heb. 11
We are “the xenoi,” the strangers who carry with us a promise. We hold claim to a heavenly city that we have yet to see, but we
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Wesley Arning
- Jul 25, 2022
- 6 min
Freedom & Discipline: 1 Cor. 9
When we take Christian freedom to the extreme it is watered down to nothingness—we are like everyone else. When we take Christian discipline
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Wesley Arning
- Jun 19, 2022
- 10 min
When God Shows Up: 1 Kings 19
Elijah had been on the very edge for so long, being the first in line like a drum major leading the way for God’s prophetic word, but now he
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Wesley Arning
- Jun 12, 2022
- 7 min
The Jesus Influencer
The point was not how good of an orator Paul, or Apollos or Peter was—it was all about the One they were preaching about. In their haste to
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Wesley Arning
- May 8, 2022
- 8 min
Tabitha the Disciple
We mustn’t be lured into thinking that ministry is flashy or even noteworthy to anyone but God. Tabitha’s faithfulness to the poor is a
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Wesley Arning
- Apr 15, 2022
- 6 min
Good Friday
The cross alone is not special. It is God on the cross that makes the cross significant.
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Wesley Arning
- Mar 13, 2022
- 7 min
Quenching the Darkness
When Isaiah talks about God’s light, and when Jesus says he is this “promised light,” there is this sense of hope because both Isaiah and
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Wesley Arning
- Feb 27, 2022
- 7 min
The Cross & Ukraine
They aren’t delusional or disconnected from the stark realities of their country, but because of Jesus and his work on the cross, they are
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