I love serving as New Hope Church’s Global Director, traveling to encourage the people of
God globally. Your prayers are vital to that work. I hear many stories of the goodness of
God from our partners, so this month I decided to share some...
Seems No One Listens the First Time.
God repeats things too. Things we read in the New Testament are often what God said before in the Old Testament. God knows we need to hear things twice—or maybe more.
We celebrate the forty days that lead up to the death and resurrection of
Christ by fasting, prayer and reflection. The forty days after the resurrection are not
quite as celebrated, though perhaps they should be. The death of Christ led us to...
And Easter is everything! Following His baptism, Jesus spent forty days and nights in the desert, neither eating nor drinking. He was isolated from all those who could encourage him, sleeping rough in the wilderness. After that the Bible says...
As I write this it’s -14 degrees here in Minnesota, brr! But I know soon that warmer days will be here. What I long and hope for is just around the proverbial corner. Spring, Easter, new life, longer, brighter days—and the fullness of the kingdom...
