READ: ISAIAH 55:1; LUKE 5:29-32; COLOSSIANS 3:12-15 "Why is there an empty seat?” Banji asked after swallowing a warm bite of soup. “Is someone else joining us?” Banji, Laz, and Sera enjoyed the food laid out in front of them on the mysterious table in the middle of the darkness. The man’s light still encircled [...]

READ: PSALMS 23:1-6; 46:8-11; ISAIAH 25:6; LAMENTATIONS 3:24-26 This darkness wasn’t just pitch black like the night or chilled like a cave deep within the terrain, no, it was consuming, alive, and predatory. It crept up on Laz, Banji, and Sera as they huddled close, petrified they’d lose each other in whatever this chasmic place [...]

READ: MATTHEW 11:28-30; 14:13-23; MARK 5:21-43 One of my biggest pet peeves is slow walkers. I remember in high school I would inwardly scream when I was caught behind someone dillydallying. And now, when I go to the grocery store, I weave my cart in and out of families on busy afternoon shopping trips. I [...]

READ: JEREMIAH 42:1–43:7; EPHESIANS 2:1-10 “Rhode, tell us what to do. We will die here on the planet Yavorah! The Kuvil Regime took the rest of our people to their planet, and they won’t let us live here peacefully. It’s been years since Juro’s old dynasty held us in slavery— maybe if we go back, [...]