We want to know God’s will from the Scripture. We want to hear God’s voice and pray with confidence. But sometimes the best we get is “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us”. Not, “Thus Saith the Lord”. Just “It seemed good”. The...
This is my prayer: that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you determine what is best. Philippians 1:9–10. Our culture thrives on binary categories. Good and evil. Black and white. Left and right. Republican and democrat. Right and...
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Watch out for...
Pastor Todd Rodarmel finishes his series on Wisdom with a message on the book of Job. Todd explains the cosmic wager made in Heaven and how Job has to cope with the results. He shows how his friends come to "comfort" him, but in the...
Pastor Todd Rodarmel continues his series on Wisdom with a message on the book of Ecclesiastes. Todd shares, through some very personal stories of his own, how we can continue to walk with God through seasons of doubt, and through times when we must rethink...
The book of Ecclesiastes blows smoke on the simple wisdom of proverbs. It brings up the exceptions to the rule. I'm glad it is part of our Bible. Much of its teaching casts doubt on other parts of the Bible, but that is why it is...
Those of you who have been to our Boot Camp have heard John Eldredge say repeatedly, "There is a way things work". That could be the one-line theme of the book of Proverbs in the Bible. There is a way things work. If you learn...
I am excited to be starting a teaching series in the wisdom books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job. The Bible Project put together a series of videos on these that I will be using as a jumping off point. As I watched them it occurred...
