Category: commentary

salvation: not just something to know but truth to be lived!

not singular, but together

“Photo-Friday” – some serenity from our neck of the woods

You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on Yo

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God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. – Ecclesiastes 3:11 I have two things for us today. The first is my wife Rebekah’s video blog from this morning. Ever…

The brashness, moxie, and self-assurance that defines us could be our undoing (when Liberty & Justice for all could benefit from a little humility)

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now…

The simple heart of the gospel message

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines…

when difficult conversations break out, care and respect must go both ways…

having a difficult - but important - conversation

Let’s do what it takes to stay engaged! We can’t afford to lose one another…

let's not give up on community!

Listening “soul to soul” – because your story matters

O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word on my tongue, But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether. You have hedged me behind and before, And…