There is a danger that can exist in the church without looking like sin. You can know the Bible and not obey it. You can explain the gospel and fail to live by faith. You can listen to sermons every week, read Christian books, memorize Scripture, discuss theology, and accumulate years of Christian vocabulary and yet remain remarkably unchanged. It is possible to become spiritually informed without becoming spiritually mature. That is a sobering thought, and it is precisely the kind of danger...

Daniel 1 introduces us to four young men carried into exile and immersed in a culture determined to reshape their identity, convictions, and worship. Yet Daniel and his friends demonstrate that faithfulness to God is possible even when surrounded by pressure to compromise. In the message above, we walk through Daniel 1 and explore what it means to remain faithful when the world around us pulls us in another direction. Daniel’s courage was not rooted in his circumstances, his strength, or his...

Loneliness is one of the strangest experiences of modern Christian life. We can sit in a crowded sanctuary and still feel alone. We can have hundreds of social-media connections and no one we would call when life falls apart. We can attend church every Sunday, participate in a small group, serve on a ministry team, and still quietly wonder, “Does anyone really know me?” For Christians, loneliness can feel especially confusing. We belong to Christ. We have been adopted into the family of God....