by Mike Crump | Oct 30, 2025 | Anxiety, Christmas, Family, Featured, Suffering, Thanksgiving
This year Thanksgiving is at my house. This means that my kids, kids-in-law, grandkids, parents, brother, sister-in-law, nephews and niece, a golden retriever, and a very old cat will occupy the same dwelling where food will be eaten and thanks will be given....
by Mike Crump | Jan 28, 2025 | Anxiety, Christian Life, Featured, Gospel, Worship
“So the woman left her water jar…” Such a simple statement of fact, yet the implications are glorious and worthy of consideration. The woman at the well in John 4 was seen as a social outcast, and appeared to be living up to the reputation she had gained. She was a...
by Mike Crump | Jan 2, 2025 | Anxiety, Christian Life, Featured, Gospel, Joy, Love
I have a love/hate relationship with new year’s resolutions. There is something significant about the birth of a new year that brings about reflection and a desire to do more things, accomplish more goals, and even “become more” personally. As followers of...
by Mike Crump | Nov 19, 2024 | Anxiety, Christian Life, Featured, Joy, Purpose
“Aim for Christ and get joy and God. Aim for joy and get neither.” -Pastor Nathan The Christian journey often feels like a paradox, filled with tensions that seem, at first glance, to defy logic. But these tensions aren’t negative; they are divine mysteries that call...
by Mike Crump | Oct 30, 2024 | Anxiety, Christian Life, election, Featured, Politics, Suffering
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Rev 1:8 Let there be no confusion on this day. The Alpha and Omega is ruling and reigning at this very moment in perfect holiness and without fail (Ps. 99:1). He...
by Mike Crump | Sep 29, 2024 | Anxiety, Christian Life, Church, Featured, Gospel, Rest
“Be still, and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10a I remember being a teenager and hearing the beginning of Psalm 46:10 quoted all the time. That was the mid 90’s and there seemed to be a way of thinking about life in the church that was often summed up in the saying,...
