Hosanna, I see so much evidence of grace in your life. You are truly growing up. I have witnessed these wonderful things throughout the past year of your life:

a growing tenderness towards your little sister
growth in your knowledge and understanding of God (which is evidenced by the way you pray)
exuberant and contagious spurts of joy [...]

I normally don’t get excited about church building campaigns. For good reason, I think, I am often skeptical, wondering if the construction of a bigger and better building is the best use of a church’s resources. A church’s emphasis on the outward structure rather than the inward life is often evidenced by endless building campaigns.
The [...]

I have often been irritated with the way many evangelicals insist on preaching from a self-written, uninspired, 5th gospel, which they call A Harmony of the Gospels. They fit together the four different accounts of the life of Christ, attempting to reconstruct history. After their history is “neatly” constructed they exegete and preach their account [...]