A friend’s request for a rent check called my dual loyalties into question. Both parties are enmeshed in an ongoing identity ...

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I live in that dark land. I am both a creation and a creator of it. Yet if I admit that the darkness dwells within me, I am ...

I was a memory-verse A-lister, Bible trivia ace pastor’s kid. A crisis of faith brought me to read Scripture anew.

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Advent reminds us that no matter how dark we might sense the world to be, we are known and seen by the God who so wonderfully ...

Call it the “Christmas cloud”—that unwelcome shadow suspended over many in December. For the Christian, it’s hard to admit.

After the show was over, again there was no vestibule to ease ourselves out of darkness and into the light of day. The sun ...

What darkness envelops you today? Perhaps it’s the long winter months we find ourselves in, the overwhelming expectations of ...

E.M. Welcher is the pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Vermillion, South Dakota. He is the author of Advent: A Thread in the ...

Whatever you are facing in this season, however dark things might seem, remember that light has come and is coming again, and ...

Without acknowledging our grief, we won’t experience the deep comfort of releasing our sorrows to the suffering Savior ...