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,...
by Mike Crump | Jul 2, 2024 | Anxiety, Christian Life, Featured, Gospel, Suffering
“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.” Ecc. 1:2 The book of Ecclesiates is one of my favorite books of the Bible because of how honest it is about life in this temporal world. In many ways the “Preacher” of Ecclesiastes sounds...
