Community and Relationships

February 28, 2019
By Brenda Jo Wong
Family Beyond Blood

"Numerous people are committed to me like family, and I am included in their families and celebrations. God has given me the security of knowing that I belong, I am loved, and I am accepted unconditionally."

January 11, 2019
By Bridget Gee
Fearing Feedback

"God has slowly but surely revealed to me that my endless striving for love and admiration has been in vain, and that if I continued after it, it would also be an ever-smoldering oven, constantly needing to be fueled and fed. It was an idol."

November 29, 2018
By Brenda Jo Wong
Do You Have a Safety Net? How Community Helps Us Turn from Sin

A crucial gift that God has given us is Christian community. And by community, I don’t just mean Christians who hang out together but friends who lovingly speak God’s truth in grace to keep us on the right path. This is the kind of community the Bible encourages us toward.

November 15, 2018
By Albert Y. Hsu
Grieving a Suicide

In 1998, Albert Hsu received a call that his father had committed suicide. Here, Albert reflects on grief, the current statistics around suicide, where he finds hope, and how we can help those who might be struggling with suicidal thoughts.

October 04, 2018
By Anne McCracken
What Good Is Humility?

The closer we resemble Jesus, the closer we are to being truly humble.

August 07, 2018
By Brenda Jo Wong
Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet a Charismatic

As Charismatic Christianity affirms all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, believers can hear from God in multiple ways. God can speak through dreams, visions, prophetic words, or listening prayer. We see many examples of this in Scripture.

July 26, 2018
By Steve Tamayo
Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet a Non-Denominationalist

Although non-denom churches can be difficult to explain and define, I find them easy to justify. Non-denominational churches exist because God’s people are diverse and his passions include the entire earth. Some of us just don’t fit into a denominational box. 

July 19, 2018
By Jason Gaboury
Making Sense of Christianity’s Branches: Meet an Anglican

Anglicans have learned to see the churning conflict of each generation as an opportunity for worship, witness, and welcome. Sometimes articulated as via media or “the middle way,” Anglicans blur the lines between Protestant and Catholic, Reformed and Anabaptist, liberal and evangelical. This is our church’s greatest strength as well as its most profound weakness.

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