Scripture Reading — Luke 10:25-37“Who is my neighbor?” — Luke 10:29How do you react when you meet someone who contrasts brazenly with things you hold dear? Maybe it’s someone in your neighborhood, extended family, workplace, or church. Maybe t

Scripture Reading — John 4:7-20, 28-30Jesus declared, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.” — John 4:13-14When I meet people and they find out what I do for a living

Scripture Reading — Psalm 139:23-24Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. — Psalm 139:23Repentance can seem like something we should outgrow. It’s great for spiritual beginners, but it’s hard to imagine Christ

Scripture Reading — Romans 7:14-25I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. — Romans 7:15Sometimes church can get in the way of repentance.Repentance plays a huge part in our becoming followers of

Scripture Reading — Romans 7:21-25I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. — Romans 7:23Repentance isn’t complicated. It can be as simple as saying “I’

Scripture Reading — 1 John 1:8-10If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. — 1 John 1:9Shame creates distance from God, just as it did for the woman at the well. Since

Scripture Reading — John 4:4-18[Jesus] told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” — John 4:16In this story we find hints that the Samaritan woman was accustomed to hiding. Her personal life had fallen into ruin, and her sense of shame af