Back in the Day: Being Together
Today is World Communion Sunday. It is in part a reminder of the many different cultures and ways of life around the world. Each of those cultures are made up of people who have lives....
Life and Faith: Are You Satisfied?
Have you see the movie The Greatest Showman? We just watched it for our movie night at The Cellar. It is a fictional story based on some history about PT Barnum. It is basically historical...
Acceptance – No Matter the Difference
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like “struggle.” To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here, right now. –...
Picking Up The Pieces
Do you feel like you are usually right? I think most of us do. We don’t go walking around saying to ourselves and other “Yeah, I’m wrong about that.” I mean can you imagine. Just...
Save Give Yourself
See if you can guess this movie: The main characters are fleeing from a western duel with Buford Tannen. The Doc is caught and about to be killed. But this gives his friend an opportunity...
God’s Only Option
The book of Jonah is a story about God’s grace and our struggle with God’s grace. As the story begins, Jonah is called by God to go to Nineveh to “cry out against it because...
Spirituality: Creating Space for God Within Us
After Ehud had died, the Israelites again did things that the Lord saw as evil. So the Lord gave them over to King Jabin of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, and he was...
Fathers: How Good Men Change The World
There is a special relationship between mother and child. (I know…kinda a weird way to start out a Father’s Day message. Just bear with me!) Our mother is our first home. She’s the first source...
Spiritual Growth: Laws Are Meant To Change
What is a law? This may seem like a simple question. But it’s actually a little more complex than it appears. Google’s dictionary define law in this way: A system of rules that a particular...
The Ripple Effect: How One Drop Changes Everything
One early evening on a lonely country road, an old man was standing on a bridge, high above a deep river. He had just dropped a pebble over the railing to see how long it...