Jesus fed 5000 but only 500 followed him after lunch. He had 12 disciples but only 3 went further in the garden, and only 1 stood with him at the cross. The closer you get to the cross the smaller the crowd becomes. (T F Tenney ) As Gina Christian adds: “But...
My pastor preached Sunday on Christ’s direction to his followers to care in fuller, more compassionate ways than the culture. The text was on the Good Samaritan. A key word in the text was the way the Samaritan had compassion for the Jewish man, attacked and...
From 2016: God often “flips the script”…..As Jacob’s son Joseph told his jealous and deceitful brothers many years after their betrayal of him, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good” Genesis 50:20a. No matter that...
There was a series of devotionals on God’s questions to some individuals in Scripture……to Adam and Eve, to Elijah, I think. But God posed questions to many in Scripture. Abraham, Sarah, Moses, Job, and others. My experience has been that...
The matter of suffering and our desire to somehow avoid it in life has been very present lately as my awareness has been heightened by my own and others’ experiences…. I talked to someone who told me she’d had a dream in which her abuser, no longer...
I had a GREAT BIG “aha” moment today!!!! I have been receiving spam/phishing phone calls from Google for weeks regarding my “business listing” with Google needing an update to my “business listing.”. I have not responded to them....
“Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.” To what is the Psalmist directing our attention in Psalm 8:2? Anyone with the capacity for compassion and interest in the...
Pastor Craig Carter in his sermon on Sunday used a word I have also come to use in referring to our church campus and all church campuses….”outpost.” As a new year has begun, it and the circumstances of recent weeks have aided in a review of our...
“When the church takes seriously its call to facilitate healing and life transformation as the Body of Christ, the world will be a different place…… one person at the time. We must reclaim a holistic view of what “abundant living” can be and help people achieve...
Friday, January 20, 2023, January 20th, 7:13 a.m. after an emerging family crisis had become known to a young mother and me.) :Correspondence from Cathy Byrd to a Christian friend- “Good morning, I am humbled by your family’s kind response to my...
