Thanksgiving 2020 – Beauty Every Day

Love, love, love. Always.

When the Lord appears…

To best care for others, we also need to care for ourselves. Depending on how you read Genesis, chapter 18 could be a different version of chapter 17. In both YHWH approaches Abraham and Sarah and promise a future nation to Abraham through a child from Sarah. In both they are elderly people. In 17, …

House & Family

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Mark 3:20-35 Who has authority? Today, I'd say it is religious leaders, the government, and social media.   In Jesus' day, it was the government of Rome, the scribes or religious leaders, and family.   The crowd comes together, loud and noisy. Stinking and ill. They press in on Jesus so tightly …

They Who Conquer the World

1 John 5: 1-6 John 15:9-17 Jesus gives only one commandment. He teaches much. He asks of us things. He commissions. He appoints. But he commands only one thing: Love one another. Love one another as I have loved you. When asked what the greatest commandment is in the Bible out of all of them, …

Is There Worthless Religion?

James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Do you dare to turn on the news lately? Do you dare to listen or read the stories coming out of Southern Europe, the Balkans, and North Africa? There is a migrant crisis, so it is being called. These common words obscure the horror of what is actually going …