Advent – Week 4: Love The fourth Week of Advent is the week of Love. This verse tells us that Jesus came because God loves us so much that he doesn’t want any of us to miss out on spending eternity (forever) with him. All we have to do is believe that Jesus is the Son […]
Love The essence of our calling is summed up in a single word: Love. In a world that has romanticized and sexualized love, the church has a beautiful opportunity to show the love of God Himself. Yet, each local church must ask, “Have we confused being ‘nice’ or ‘neighborly’ for being truly loving? Do the […]
Happy Monday! (I will save my Christmas post for Christmas!) Ok, it may be Christmas time, but as we well know, there are other things we need to be on the alert for during this time. In all the hustle and bustle, we don’t always take the best care of ourselves. Sometimes, the flu and […]
Advent – Week 3: Joy Happiness is an emotion that can disappear as quickly as it rises to the surface. Joy, however, is a choice. We have a choice. God gives us a joy that is unconquerable. We can choose to live in an attitude of resentment, anger and fear or we can choose to […]
Love The essence of our calling is summed up in a single word: Love. In a world that has romanticized and sexualized love, the church has a beautiful opportunity to show the love of God Himself. Yet, each local church must ask, “Have we confused being ‘nice’ or ‘neighborly’ for being truly loving? Do the […]
Come join us Christmas Eve, December 24 at 6 pm to focus on the birth of our Savior and King! Did I mention there will be candles! And […]
Happy Monday! Wow! Two weeks until Christmas! I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m a little behind! This is the time that, if we aren’t careful, we totally lose the focus of what this season is all about. It’s not about the decorations, it’s not about the gifts and it’s certainly not […]
Advent – Week 2: Peace During this week of Advent, we focus on receiving the peace that surpasses all understanding. Today you will light both the “hope” candle and the “peace” candle. What is peace? From the very beginning of time, peace was understood to be not simply the absence of that which […]
Love The essence of our calling is summed up in a single word: Love. In a world that has romanticized and sexualized love, the church has a beautiful opportunity to show the love of God Himself. Yet, each local church must ask, “Have we confused being ‘nice’ or ‘neighborly’ for being truly loving? Do the […]
Happy Monday! Here we are, in full holiday mode with the Christmas season upon us. This isn’t just a difficult time with temptations every time we turn around, but also with the fact that we are going every which way constantly! It takes some preplanning to keep your food intake on track. Because I sometimes […]