“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” – Isaiah 43:18-19 “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so...
At Christmas, by Edgar Guest A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas seasons here; Then he’s thinking more of others than he’s thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is...
“They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for want of shelter.” Job 24:7-8 “The natives showed us extraordinary kindness; for because of the rain that had set in andbecause of the cold, they kindled a...
You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger – James 1:19 Listening is a creative force. Something quite wonderful occurs when we are listened to fully. We expand, ideas come to life and grow, we remember who we are. Some speak of...
Dear Sisters and Brothers, I spent some time earlier this week looking through a National Geographic publication titled, Jesus: An Illustrated Life. It is one of those magazines that we see regularly in the checkout line at the grocery (exactly where I had seen this one some months ago.) It had caught my eye and...
As our nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, it is important that we remember that while we
Americans rightly celebrate the hard-fought-for freedoms from tyranny and oppression that we enjoy after
our revolutionary war, with Britain, and the many individual rights and liberties that our Constitution
guarantees for us as citizens, those of us who are Christian must acknowledge that we are to consider
ourselves as first and foremost inter –dependent rather than independent.
