Sometimes the church world can overcomplicate things. We create theories, argue about semantics, and obsess over the wrong things. I think that this is especially true when we talk about…
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Christians have long made bold statements about God. Perhaps the most audacious claim Christians make is not only that there IS a God, but that we can know him. Through…
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Flour. Water. Juice. Ordinary objects found all over the world throughout all of history. How is it that these simple, ordinary objects come to share an extraordinary story? In God’s…
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Friends gathered. A meal on the table. Laughter shared. Stories told. This is the setting for the best parts of our lives for thousands of years. Why is it that…
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It seems strange to make people do something when they want to be a part of the church. Why require something that is so foreign to our culture’s way of…
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Why do we have church anyway? What are we doing gathering together on a Sunday morning for a church service in the first place? If we’re going to explore the…
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Church is a funny thing. What we do when we gather is an odd thing to those unfamiliar or uninitiated. Even though our practices may be unfamiliar to an outside…
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We all love a good story. We especially love the story of the underdog, the triumph of the human spirit, and the satisfaction of overcoming odds stacked against the hero….
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What happens when God’s people come together? What does it look like to worship, learn, pray, and repent together? There are many factors in determining what a gathering of the…
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Our culture is built for distraction. The more effective you are at distraction, the more successful your business will be. Yet the pattern set forward by Nehemiah and Jesus is…
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Sometimes things we take for granted to be true aren’t quite what we were led to believe. We can repeat things we’ve always assumed or that our culture has deemed…
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At some point, we will all deal with it. Some feel the weight of it daily. For some it comes from others, for some it comes from themselves. How do…
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Has God ever called you out of your comfort zone to do something “crazy?” Nehemiah would say so. And what we do in those moments says a lot about our…
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Part of being a Christian is to notice when things “aren’t how they’re supposed to be.” We look around and we see the brokenness that this world has been subjected…
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“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”- Augustine Since our first exile from the Garden of Eden, we have…
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Jesus knows. Those two words are packed full of meaning and comfort for us today. He knows what it’s like to live in this world and all of its false…
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Is this it? That’s the question that, at some point, we all will ask ourselves. As we work so hard and pursue so many different things, what we inevitably find…
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What we long for teaches us something about ourselves. When all of humanity shares that same longing, we can begin to understand even deeper truths about how we are created….
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God’s word is “living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword” (Heb 4:12). At Providence, we believe that is true, but we also acknowledge that sometimes it is very…
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Who are the most influential figures in the Old Testament? If you were to ask the average church-goer, they probably wouldn’t put Ezra in their top 10. However, Ezra’s influence…
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