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Recently during our Heas Up Bible study, we were taken through the naming of Israel and reminded of how that name came about. Before becoming Israel, Jacob was Jacob: a man whose very name carried connotations of striving, grasping, and deception. Yet despite all of that, he became the recipient of God's blessings, passed down from Abraham. When I read the story of Jacob...

There’s a part of the Easter story we don’t often hear about much, for those of us who often go to church. Not what happened on the cross, not the revelation of the empty tomb…but the day in between. The day where, from the outside, nothing seemed to be happening. On the Friday, Jesus had been crucified. The disciples had scattered, and whatever hope they...