I was thinking this morning about how our churches (for the large part) seem to be homogeneous, meaning, the people in our churches all seem to look alike and be very much alike. I wondered is there a place for the marginalized of our society in our church, or would we marginalize them the same [...]
Reconciliation
I have often heard people talk about the God of the Bible – how we know who he is by what he does. We see the many times that God provided for his people – the ram for Abraham’s sacrifice, in the desert when Israel was wandering, his instruction to Israel to provide for the [...]
I first read The Shack by William Young earlier this year. My husband, Shannon, had heard a preacher talking against the book and decided to check into it. He read the first chapter online and decided to buy the book. He and I read the book together and really enjoyed the story. Since then, we [...]
Last night, our pastor (Robert Barnes) had us to think of one situation in our lives in which we need God to move and change things. He then spoke about the power of Jesus to heal, deliver, conquer, save, love, create, etc. and asked us when we thought about that thing on Monday (today) to [...]
I just wanted to post some thoughts I have had today about something that Laura Seals (our wonderful, talented Sunday School teacher) mentioned in her lesson today. We are studying the story of Job, and she brought out that Job took his position as a father seriously – even to the point that after his [...]
