Rediscovering Faith

Send us your questions and reflections! What if real spiritual growth didn’t begin with doing more… but with starting smaller? In this new series from Rediscovering Faith , we’re inviting you into a different kind of journey—one that slows down, simplifies faith, and focuses on small, faithful steps that God uses to bring lasting change. The series is called Start Small: Small Steps. Big Results....

Send us your questions and reflections! As we finish up our Waiting Well Advent series, we journey with the Magi. On our journey with them, we revisit many of the core themes that we have looked over these last 24 days together.  However, we recognize most deeply that as we wait for God to move. We wait with an attitude of worship and generosity - just as the magi worshipped the new born King and...

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we have finally arrived at Bethlehem with Mary and Joseph and welcome the infant Messiah into the world. Join us as we reflect on the promises that God has fulfilled and the simple trust that Mary and Joseph displayed in God.

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we join the shepherds who were the first to hear about the birth of the Messiah.  In the midst of their normal daily responsibilities, God showed up.  Join us as we contemplate how these common everyday people help us to wait well.

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we check in with Mary the Mother of Jesus.  It can be easy to forget just how much God showing up in Mary's life completely wrecked all the well-thought through and good-intentioned plans that she had for her life.  Thankfully, Mary received the breaking-in of God's presence into her life. And thankfully, she gave us a...

Send us your questions and reflections! Today on Rediscovering Faith, we are taking a look at our first New Testament character of our Waiting Well Advent series - Joseph. We learn much about what it means to wait well if when things around us really are not about us.

Send us your questions and reflections! In episode 20 of our Waiting Well series, we join the prophet Jonah in the belly of the great fish. While there we listen intently to the content of Jonah's prayer as recorded in Jonah 2 and find out that we might have been thinking about Jonah wrong for quite sometime.  Jonah doesn't pray a prayer of repentance. He prays a prayer of thanksgiving f...

Send us your questions and reflections! What if waiting well isn’t about figuring out what to do next—but about becoming someone who can truly hear God? In today’s episode of Waiting Well , we step into Isaiah’s powerful vision of God’s holiness in the temple. Before Isaiah is ever sent as a messenger, he is confronted with God’s glory, humbled by his own uncleanliness, and purified by fire. Only...

Send us your questions and reflections! What do we do when our desire to honor God turns into an urge to take control? In today’s episode of Waiting Well , we sit with King David at a moment of peace and stability. Looking at his own palace, David feels compelled to build a temple for God—a permanent place where God’s people can meet with Him. It’s a sincere desire, but God’s response is unexpecte...

Send us your questions and reflections! On Day 17 of our Advent journey, we meet David—not as a king, but as a boy tending sheep. In a quiet moment in Bethlehem, David is anointed by God as the future king of Israel. And then…nothing changes. He returns to the fields, waiting years before the promise is fulfilled. This episode explores what it means to wait well when God’s promises seem far away ....

Send us your questions and reflections! What does it look like to wait well when hope feels completely gone? In today’s episode, we return to the closing chapter of Ruth’s story—but we see it through the eyes of Naomi. Once full of life and promise, Naomi returns to Bethlehem bitter, grieving, and convinced that God has emptied her hands. She even asks to be renamed Mara , meaning “bitter.” Naomi...

Send us your questions and reflections! On Day 15 of our Advent series, we step into one of the most striking victories in the Old Testament: Gideon and his tiny army facing the massive Midianite army. God’s instructions seem unusual—march at night, carry torches hidden in jars, blow trumpets, and shout. And yet, through these seemingly strange steps, God brings victory. The fire in the jars not o...

Send us your questions and reflections! On Day 14 of our Advent journey, we step up to the walls of Jericho. The Israelites are poised to enter the Promised Land, but victory doesn’t look like anything they—or we—would expect. God’s instructions are unusual: march around the city, carry the Ark, blow trumpets, and wait. No strategy, no weapons—just faithful obedience. This episode explores what it...

Send us your questions and reflections! On Day 13 of our Advent journey, we encounter the Israelites in the wilderness, frustrated and impatient as they travel toward the Promised Land. Their grumbling leads to danger—poisonous snakes bite the people—but God provides a clear remedy: a bronze serpent lifted on a pole. Healing comes not through their own efforts, but by looking at what God has alrea...

Send us your questions and reflections! On Day 12 of our Advent journey, we explore the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai. The Israelites have been delivered from Egypt, yet they are not ready to enter the Promised Land. God gives them the commandments not simply as rules to obey, but as formation for a people who can receive His promises. Waiting well is not passive. It is a season in...

Send us your questions and reflections! Two months after crossing the Red Sea, the Israelites find themselves hungry, weary, and disappointed in the wilderness. The miracle of their deliverance feels distant, and their fear begins to speak louder than their faith. Exodus tells us that the entire community started to grumble —not because their need was insignificant, but because they couldn’t imagi...

Send us your questions and reflections! On Day 10 of our Advent journey, we reflect on the first Passover in Exodus 12 and the New Testament connection in 1 Corinthians 5:7. Just as the Israelites were marked by the blood of the lamb to experience freedom, Jesus is our ultimate Passover Lamb, setting us apart and securing our salvation. Waiting well, as this episode explores, is not passive. It me...

Send us your questions and reflections! In today’s Advent episode, we explore Moses’ encounter with God at the burning bush in Exodus 3:1–10 and discover a surprising truth about waiting: God often invites us to participate in the very rescue we’ve been praying for. While Moses is living an ordinary, quiet life in the wilderness, God breaks in with a mission—because waiting well isn’t passive. It’...

Send us your questions and reflections! On Day 8 of our Advent journey, we enter one of the most moving scenes in the story of Joseph. Judah—the brother who once sold Joseph into slavery—now steps forward and offers himself as a substitute for Benjamin. It is a stunning revelation of how deeply God has transformed him over years of hardship, waiting, and grace. This episode explores the theme: Wai...

Send us your questions and reflections! Day 7 takes us into the wilderness with Jacob, a man running for his life and clinging to a fragile promise. In Genesis 28, Jacob encounters God in a dream—a ladder stretching from earth to heaven and the assurance that God will be with him, protect him, and bring him home. Jacob responds by building a stone pillar—a “stone of remembrance”—declaring that God...

Send us your questions and reflections! In Day 6 of our Advent series, we enter one of Scripture’s most emotionally charged moments: Abraham on Mount Moriah with Isaac. This passage in Genesis 22 confronts us with a difficult but essential truth—sometimes waiting well means waiting in the uncomfortable. Abraham’s journey is filled with love, confusion, and pain. God asks him to offer Isaac, the so...

Send us your questions and reflections! On Day 5 of our Advent journey, we follow Abraham—the man called to walk into the unknown with nothing but God’s word in his hands. Abraham’s story teaches one of the most important truths about waiting well: When we’re unsure what to do next, we should obey what God has already revealed. In Genesis 12, God calls Abraham to “go… to the land I will show you.”...

Send us your questions and reflections! On Day 4 of our Advent journey, we step into the story of Noah—a story that holds together judgment and mercy, devastation and hope, waiting and renewal. After the floodwaters recede, Noah finds himself living in the “in-between”—alive and preserved, yet still confined within the ark. It’s a powerful picture of the seasons when God has brought us through som...

Send us your questions and reflections! On Day 3 of our Advent journey, we step into one of the most pivotal moments in Scripture—the aftermath of the fall. Humanity has sinned, brokenness has flooded the world, and fear and shame now cling to the human heart. Yet into this moment of darkness, God speaks the very first promise of redemption. In Genesis 3:14–15, often called the Protoevangelium —th...

Send us your questions and reflections! In today’s Advent episode, we explore what it means to wait well when life feels dark, unformed, or uncertain. Long before the first Christmas, Scripture opens with a scene of deep darkness—yet God is present, hovering over the waters, preparing creation for light. John’s Gospel echoes this beginning and reveals the stunning truth: the Word who brought light...