Connecting people with the hope of the Gospel.
The story of Noah and the ark is really a story of God and his grace.
By grace, God saved, sustained, and sent Noah.
By grace, God saves, sustains, and sends us, too!
God's grace precedes righteousness, it provides relationship, and it produces faith and obedience.
Sometimes when we're reading the Scriptures, we come across things that fall into the theological category of "weird," and we find some of that in Genesis 6. We also find something that's not weird a…
There are two ways to live: we can live like Cain and his line, fleeing from God's presence and going our own way or we can live like Seth and his line, turning toward God in faith.
God demonstrates His grace even in the worst of our messes.
Though we are runners and rebels, the God who was and is and is to come is good and He loves us. He will not change his mind. God is tenaciously committed to us, regardless of how we treat Him, and w…
If God is good and he created a good world for good people made in his image... what went wrong? How do we make sense of the disconnect between our longings and our experience?
In a word, sin. Sin is …
The good Creator of all things loves us, and we see that in the good gifts he gave us at creation...
Human beings have always had big questions on their hearts: how did we get here? Why are we here? What are we supposed to do? Why do we all feel that the only world we've ever known isn't the way it …
How can we be a part of God's work in and through Back Creek Church?
Jesus is the Word of God who breaks the silence forever.
Jesus is the Light of God whom the darkness has not, cannot, will not overcome.
Jesus is the love of God who brings home alienated prodigals, gi…
Some of the most beautiful words in the history of the universe are "And it came to pass." "And it came to pass" means that God has acted in history to give all his promises their "yes and amen." It …
God's final answer to his people's cry, "Deliver us!" was a baby boy in Bethlehem who is God's presence with his people (Isaiah 7:14), God's king over his people (Isaiah 9:1-7), God's prophet to his …
Lord, let your judgment pass over us
Lord, let your love hover near
Don't let your sweet mercy pass over us
Let this blood cover over us here
- Andrew Peterson, "Passover Us," Behold the Lamb of God
Gather 'round, ye children, come, listen to the old, old story of the power of death undone.
We do not love our neighbors as ourselves until we want for them what we have in Christ to the degree that we are compelled to connect them with the hope of the Gospel.
We love our neighbors with holiness when we show them who God is by telling a better story with our lives than the story the world is telling.
We love our neighbors with humility when we realize the b…
Loving God with all of our hearts, souls, and minds doesn't remain in our inner person - it flows into our lives transforming our priorities, our schedules, our words, our actions. Love for neighbor …
The second great commandment is grounded in and flows from the first: we can love our neighbors only when we supremely love God, but we can only love God fully if we love our neighbors.
Jesus commands us to love the Lord our God with all of our minds. We do this by thinking about God (connecting creation, our daily experiences, and blessings) and thinking God's thoughts after him (b…