A friend send me this as her Christmas greeting today. I think it’s really good – so appropriate for where we are. I share it and pray, too, for a new, real, Holy Spirit-led unity, mercy, and grace to fall upon us. Something happened this year, I am not sureContinue Reading
1 Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. 2 I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me. 3 I am worn out calling for help; my throat is parched. MyContinue Reading
I the LORD do not change. (Mal. 3:6a NIV) 29“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with allContinue Reading
Lately I am struck by how interconnected our lives are — not just our lives as a family, community, or church body, but as citizens of the U.S. and the world. If a factory closes here and a comparable one opens in a different country, families are affected, for badContinue Reading
“This world has nothing for me…I will follow you…” * God told Abram to pack up his household and go to the place “I will show you.” Jesus called to the disciples, “Come follow me.” And they left their nets and followed. Tonight I talked with friends who are preparing to move outContinue Reading