Michael Graff

When I was in high school, my family went on a ski trip. Toward the end of our vacation, my two youngest siblings decided they wanted to try skiing tougher mountains. Since I’m the oldest, I offered to take them. We caught a gondola to the top of the mountain, planned our path down, then […]

Restored homes have always intrigued me. It’s incredible to witness experts take a property worn and torn from centuries past and bring it back to its original state. Perhaps I love this process because it reminds me of how God works. Since the beginning, He has taken the old and made it new again. He […]

Throughout Scripture, we’re commanded to fear God. For some, this can be confusing. Doesn’t the Bible also tell us repeatedly not to fear? The key in understanding this is knowing what the author meant by the word fear in verses like Proverbs 3:7 (“…fear the Lord, and depart from evil.”) The word fear here does not mean to be afraid; it means […]

There’s one movie I think every 80s or 90s kid might have childhood trauma from. The Lion King—specifically the scene in which Mufasa, the father, dies. But like with any good story, we never stopped the movie after that one uncomfortable scene. We kept watching. Why? Because we trusted the author had a good end in […]