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Seeing a church on fire is very hard for anyone. I am reminded of the day my husband and I were on our way home from a trip celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary to learn that a church in the charge that would be my first appointment as a pastor starting in a couple of […]
Questions come to me weekly. Some are repeated more often than others. This one was asked recently and I was inspired to share the question and the answer with you here. ~ Pastor Theresa **************************************************** Q: Because you asked: “How do I convince my family and friends that my Christian values, morals and ethics are […]
Click and play the video above. We all have something in common. Certainly for many, we find a lot of common ground when we talk about the tv specials we enjoyed growing up. The end of the Peanuts’ Christmas special, for me, is always the peaceful, calm, sweet part of the show. I can’t help […]
Question: “How should I respond to the directive to me and others like me to go out and get in peoples’ faces and scream at them, telling them they’re not welcome and shouting them out of where they are, as a means of protest? I’m upset, too, but this isn’t my nature and it sounds […]
“Owning your piece of the pie” means accepting responsibility for your own role in a situation. I’ve watched people on the old tv box this morning once again place blame for their chosen and intentional behavior on someone else and it’s childish. Just plain childish. Any grown mature human knows that everyone who reported, posted, […]
Are you a Christian, wondering what on earth is going on these days that make people so miserable? Let me ask you this: Are you (and/or others) cursing those you should be praying for to receive God’s leading and protection? For a long time I’ve been asking God to help me understand America’s disconnect; how […]
A Bible Study Challenge, a timely one: Romans 2 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) The Righteous Judgment of God 2 Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things. 2 You say, “We know that […]
Read 1 Samuel 17 NRSV In a recent message, I talked about the odd match up between David and Goliath. Especially how the agile, youthful David rushes his way to the battle line while the lumbering giant Goliath is led to the line by an attendant. There is so much conveyed in so few words […]
There are few things that I enjoy more than fearless faith in a young person. Sadie Robertson spent the toughest growing years a female experience in the spotlight, intensifying every experience a girl would go through. I recommend this YouVersion study to anyone who enjoys her brand of fearless faith and encourage you to share […]
John 8:47 [Jesus said,] “Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God.” (NRSV) Recently, we talked in church about the understanding the difference between reading what you see on social media and hearing what the writer says. Comprehending what the […]