Author: Nicole Speer There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear… ~1 John 4:18 Last night, Russia’s sociopathic dictator started bombing cities across Ukraine, killing innocent people and traumatizing millions of...

Author: Amy Ostwald Those who live at earth’s farthest bounds are awed by your signs; you make the gateways of the morning and the evening shout for joy. You visit the earth and water it, you greatly enrich it; the river of God is...

Author: Kea Giles I spend a lot of time out walking my dogs, and as I walk, I am often in conversation with God, even if it’s just about little things. One day, soon after I came back to church after a hiatus of 20 years, I was out...

Author: Bob von Trebra   Malachi 3:10 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you...

Author: Nancy Stevens   You can’t find firm footing in a swamp, but life rooted in God stands firm    Proverbs 12:3   My grandparents had a cotton farm near the Four Hole Swamp in South Carolina. We had moved up...

Author -Rick Kron   “It seems to me that the good Lord in his infinite wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs.  But the greatest of these was dogs.”     -Robyn Davidson, Australian writer...

Betsy Barrett Ephesians 3:17 May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. In my teens I struggled to understand God and wanted to know how to find God. In my struggles I finally sat...

Author: Julie Graf Frye   I part the out-thrusting branches and come in beneath the blessed and the blessing trees. Though I am silent there is singing around me. Though I am dark there is vision around...

Author: Eric Malmborg The new year is a time to create resolutions or goals to focus on. It is a time to make sure we’re doing all we can to improve our physical or financial health. As a member of the committee on the Ministry of...

Author: Diana Shellenberger   “They will know we are Christians by our love.” Traditional hymn based on John 13:35   Some people who call themselves Christians have substituted the love the hymn praises for love...