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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The eerie thing was, as I gazed upward at the brilliant spectacle, the immediate darkness in which I stood was just as ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Christmastime has arrived in all its luster, but I’m having one of those nights when sleeping has become a wild ambition. The ...

That is Advent’s promise, one Christ’s birth made manifest as “the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John ...

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 ...

The answer is as clear and serious as the noonday sun: because Jesus is real. The incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ, is our ...

Within me, the voice that spoke, initially in a whisper but with gradually intensifying volume, uttered these four words: ...