Our devotion today is from Ephesians 4:25-32. Pastor Paul writes some strong words about how a Christian should not live. He describes their actions this way: They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. Pastor Paul speaks clearly that every practice of impurity does not…
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It’s the little things…
It’s the little things in life, right? Sometimes the devil is in the details and it is the little things that you miss that trip you up. But in a positive light it is also the small things that often mean the most, not the grand gestures as much as the daily caring and love…
A Sign Of Death
Tomorrow, on Ash Wednesday, the observance of the season of lent begins. The Lenten Season starts with the sign of the cross placed upon the foreheads of faithful Christians across the world, placed there with ashes, a sign of mortality and death. However, it is this visible sign of death that is also a visible…
Powerful Christian Messages Meant For Sharing
Good words from a friend.
Too Many To Count
You are not alone. I’m sure it feels like that sometimes, especially when you are trying to do what is right, or you are struggling with a really difficult life situation and wondering if you are the only one who is dealing with this kind of thing. You are not alone. As A Christian you…
Why It’s Good To Be Here
Lord, it is good to be here! I love those words of Peter on the mount of Transfiguration, when for a moment the veil separating heaven and earth was lifted and Peter saw Jesus in His glory. It is good to be here. But there is another place where those words are said, a place…
7 Reasons to Love Worshipping Together
Why do we worship together? The Lord commanded us to. Not because God needs our worship but we need to be in worship with a church family, because… -In worship is where God has promised to meet you through His Word and through His Sacraments. -you grow in your trust and knowledge of who God…
Startling reasons people race out in the freezing cold for…
A man clad only in boxer shorts stopped a thief from stealing his car in southern Norway – by clinging on to the roof in a hair-raising ride at -17C. Police say the owner was left “pretty bloody” after the car crashed into a safety barrier on a bridge. A suspect has been taken into police…
House of Grace (or where you live in your faith life actually matters)
Being a landlord is an adventure I never wanted to experience but one that was thrown upon me by necessity. We bought our house in New Jersey before the financial bubble burst with every intent of staying there for a very long time but both God and life, as happens, had other plans. But then…
Livin’ on a Prayer (Meditation for 2016)
It was 1986; the era of big hair bands and Bon Jovi just released what would become their most enduring signature song and first No. 1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart, Livin’ on a Prayer has been played for nearly three decades now to countless audiences, as a tribute in The Concert for New…
Hope Together (or why the nativity of soft straw and swaddling cloths is really meant for us)
Sometimes I come across a post on Facebook for all of us when we are feeling rough and down in the dumps. It says when you’re feeling like you’re at the end of your rope and you can’t hold on any longer, tie a knot. I like the “don’t give up” attitude of the post…
