2 Corinthians 4:16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. This time of year we try and pick up on a series that is intentionally light but meaningful enough to recharge our spiritual and personal batteries at a time of significant juncture in…
Zephaniah 1:2–3 (NLT) 2 “I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” says the Lord. 3 “I will sweep away people and animals alike. I will sweep away the birds of the sky and the fish in the sea. I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble, and I will wipe…
Words are important. Like in Germany one of the words that re-emerged in the pandemic (from World War II) was hamsterkauf. Literally “hamster buy,” it referred to “the act of succumbing to our basest animal-brain instincts to hoard more necessities than we would ever actually need” (R Schuman). Like toilet paper. Actually, the Germans have…
“Christians are warned not to be babies, in an open boat at the mercy of wind and wave, driven off course by the roll of the dice!” O’Brien Ephesians 4:13–16 (NLT) 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature…
Come prepared for communion. Ephesians 3:14–19 (NLT) 14 When I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, 15 the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. 16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. 17 Then…
Nehemiah 12:27-31 27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres. 28 The musicians also were brought together from the region around Jerusalem—from the villages of the Netophathites, 29 from…
Join one of our elders, Leon Tymko, as he leads us through Nehemiah 10. God is doing a great work of renewal in the people of Israel. Through the reading of the law and reflection on the goodness of God, the people of God are lead deeper into renewal as they agree to follow the…
A bit over a week a go, I and some of the other kids an youth leaders went up to town for a training night all about “Generation Z” which is our current teenagers. And it was a fascinating night as Claire Madden described to us this generation of young people, how they think, what…