The following article was originally published in September 2016 on the Alliance of Confessing Evangelical’s blog entitled Christward Collective (now absorbed into Place for Truth). Caffeine. Late-night TV. Smartphones. Sugar. After-hours work e-mails. What do they have in common? With stunning success, we use these things – and more besides – to regularly rob ourselves of […]
Presence is Greater than Presents
The following article was originally published in June 2020 on Woodruff Road Presbyterian Church’s blog, “Pastor’s Press.” Pastor Groff served as a pastoral intern at Woodruff Road Presbyterian Church before coming to Antioch as part of the current reorganization effort. The months of May and June are bursting with birthday celebrations in my family. Colorful […]
Reflecting on Ruth
This past Lord’s Day, we concluded an eight-week sermon series on the book of Ruth. I entitled this series, The Search for a Redeemer. Blessed be the Name of the Lord, we found the Redeemer! He has come, and He is here. Before diving into a new series, two reflections are in order. First, the […]
A Resolution for the Church
Of the making of commitments there seems to be no end. Having formed any number of New Year’s Resolutions, we find ourselves bombarded by new pressures from within and without—and after nearly a month, perhaps we have already decided to call it quits. But what if we take a moment to step back from our […]
A Plain Presentation of the Glorious Gospel of God’s Saving Grace in Christ
Christians believe that the one living and true God spoke by His Spirit through chosen men to reveal Himself to us. The men through whom God chose to speak wrote down what He said through them, so that we would have a written testimony of Who God is and what God has done. From this […]
