Author: Reverend Dr. Layne Beamer (Layne Beamer)

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.

“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to yourneighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it” when you have it with you.” – Proverbs 3:27-28 “Don’t wait until it’s too late to tell someone how much you...

“Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good worksand give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” – Matthew 5:16 Dear Sisters and Brothers, Have you seen our new logo? Hopefully, some of you have noticed a new logo on our banners at the corner of12th and Guadalupe. This...

Dear Sisters and Brothers, “Go and tell”… If the women who visited the tomb on that first Easter morning had not obeyed that directive, it could be that therest of the world would have never learned that God had defeated death and darkness through Jesus Christ. Theworld might never have heard that God will not...

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our LordJesus Christ, 2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand;and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we alsoboast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering...

Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatevercircumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also knowhow to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret ofbeing filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering...