For over 500 years the Roman Empire utilized crucifixion as a means of punishment for those that they deemed a threat to their power and their sense of order. Thousands and thousands of people were executed on crosses all over the known world until the practice was outlawed in 337 CE. So many crucifixions. So many crosses. Yet, after 1700 years of history moving forward there is only one cross we still talk about. There is only one cross that has come to represent so much to

Anticipation is a powerful emotion.   We can be in an incredibly dark season, thinking that there’s no way through and that how it is now is the only way it can ever be. Then, often unexpectedly, something happens that moves our attention from the present to the future.   ​ An invitation arrives.   Someone you love says they’re coming for a visit.   An event gets announced that you’ve been wanting to experience.   ​ And while the difficulty of the present may not have changed

What is hospitality? We define it this way: People and environments that help others feel at home with God, each other, self, and...