There are seasons when life does not unfold in an orderly line but collapses into a single, disorienting moment—when events pile up faster than our ability to process them, when the ground seems to move and we are left wondering where, exactly, we now stand. In such moments, beneath the scramble to respond and the effort to remain composed, a quieter question begins to rise. It does not shout, but it refuses to leave: What is actually worth waiting for? To approach that quest

In Christ, the church is one family marked by an uncanny “Jesus-likeness,” living life future-back,

Christians talk a lot about “the gospel.” We say we’ve “believed the gospel,” “preach the gospel,” “live by the gospel.” Yet if someone...