“In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land.” That’s how the book of Ruth begins, and it’s not a throwaway detail. The book of Judges just finished describing one of the darkest chapters in Israel’s history: idolatry, civil war,…
There is a kind of spiritual danger that doesn’t announce itself with loud temptations or dramatic falls. It creeps in quietly — in the form of going through the motions, of saying the right words without meaning them, of showing up to worship while the…
Mother’s Day is one of the most emotionally complex Sundays of the year. For every woman celebrating with her children, there is another sitting quietly through a grief no one else in the room can see. At Superstition Foothills Baptist Church in Gold Canyon, we…