Stewardship Author: Nicole Speer   For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ~Matthew 6:21   My daughter is the most generous person I know. She rarely wants anything for herself and instead...

Author: Jeanne Lounsbury   He told them this parable: “No one tears a piece out of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no...

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: Deborah Voss This is the story of our Christmas tree, a very special tree and so very 2020. We had actually decided not to get a tree this year. We do so much Advent for the children in our preschool, and at church, that by the...

Author: Karen Hoover As I write this meditation, we are approaching the Fourth Sunday of Advent. And as you are reading this, Christmas Day is fast approaching. The season of waiting — excruciating for children and harried for adults...

Author: Larry Dansky “Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.” 1 Thessalonians 5:6 I was recently involved in a Zoom meeting when the discussion focused on “What has been the hardest thing for you to deal with during this...

From Whence the Christmas Story Author: Carolyn Gard And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no place for them in the inn. Luke 2:7 It's Advent, and time...