Author: Nicole Speer Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me; yet, not my will but yours be done. ~Luke 22:42 At some point during the previous administration, when our government was yet again kidnapping children of...

Author: Karen Hoover   Some of you will remember what we learned to do “back in the day” when we came to an unguarded railroad crossing—we stopped, we looked, and we listened to determine if it was safe to cross....

Author: John Bisceglia Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. For the son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom...

Author: Nicole Speer There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. ~1 John 4:18 People who were with the church at the start of the year will remember the Epiphany gifts from the Stewardship Committee. Being on the...

Author: Martha Palmer     http://survivingchurch.org/2019/09/05/who-is-my-enemy-when-the-church-needs-to-listen-better/   Trevor Hudson, in Questions God Asks Us, has a chapter on God’s question to Cain,...

Author: Larry Dansky   “Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit as he left the Jordan River. The Spirit led him while he was in the desert, where he was tempted by the devil for 40 days.” - Luke 4:1-2 “I am not a saint,...

Author: Carolyn Gard  "And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins." Mark 2:22 We have just...

Author: Diana Shellenberger “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each...

Author: Nancy Wade And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water...

Author Pedro Silva   ...Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it...