Whether your summer involves a trip to the beach, tiring your kids out at the neighborhood pool, or nights spent on your back porch enjoying the fireflies, chances are you will be cracking a book or two open in the next couple of months. Here is a comprehensive list of book recommendations from our staff. We hope you enjoy these books as much as we have! Books on Current...

Whether your summer involves a trip to the beach, tiring your kids out at the neighborhood pool, or nights spent on your back porch enjoying the fireflies, chances are you will be cracking a book or two open in the next couple of months. Here is a comprehensive list of book recommendations from our staff. We hope you enjoy these books as much as we have! 1. The Heart of ...

Whether your summer involves a trip to the beach, tiring your kids out at the neighborhood pool, or nights spent on your back porch enjoying the fireflies, chances are you will be cracking a book or two open in the next couple of months. Here is a comprehensive list of book recommendations from our staff. We hope you enjoy these books as much as we have! 1. Gentle and Lo...

Pastor Jeff reminds us that just as promised in the old testament, Jesus, Our Savior, came to rescue us and to give us hope! Isaiah 39:5-8 Isaiah 40:1-11 John 1:14...

In just a few weeks one of the most tumultuous years that any of us has ever known will be coming to an end. When I think about this year, the thing that stands out in my mind the most is those early days in March waking up each day and wondering just how much of what I thought was certain will have changed since I went to sleep.The lives that we are living now, the conver...

Let me tell you a true story. Two thousand years ago, Paul and his cohorts arrived in Ephesus and the power of the Spirit worked through Paul and his friends causing many to turn to the Way in that bustling metropolis. But all of the good citizens of Ephesus were not "locked-arms" and singing "Amazing Grace." Some were quite perturbed by the religious shake-up taking plac...

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."- Matthew 5:9 COVID 19 has provided fertile ground for conflict, lots of it. There are reports, for instance, of increased numbers of domestic violence and of "dramatically more severe" physical injuries.i "The number of people looking for divorces was 34 percent higher from March through June compared ...

It's hard to believe that what we hoped in March would be a 2-4 week interruption to our lives is still our daily reality. And as this situation with the Coronavirus has continued many of us are beginning to feel, or already have been feeling, a deep spiritual weariness.There are days when I'm getting out of the bed and I say to myself "Once more unto the breach." Right no...

A couple of weeks ago, I received an email that said, "I need to confront you." That friend was the third person to confront me within seven days. All of them about different things. Who enjoys being confronted or criticized? I certainly do not and I'm guessing you don't either. Yet confrontation and criticism happen almost daily. Brothers and sisters criticize each other....

If you are a nominally keen observer, you could take a look at my house right now and draw some pretty fair conclusions about me. With a discerning eye, you would see a pile of children's garments that have been washed, dried and folded but just didn't make it to the drawer or closet in which they reside. You would see a fence that is ninety-percent complete but with two p...