Love:Jesus said love would define us- our love for God and for others. Jesus said the world would pick us out because we were so loving. The love the Bible talks about isn't an emotion, but a choice. It's not earned, it's a gift. First...

Happy is a biblical word! Let's reclaim it proudly. Psalm 1, the theme-setting psalm for the whole psalter begins with happiness and how to have it 1) NOT hanging around with sinners 2) delighting in God's law 2) roots into God's soil=...

While we celebrate "mothers" today, we are reminded by the Scripture this week that we are made family in God. Jesus again provides us the example in word and deed as he deals with his own family. In God's family, we are gifted with...

How we try to compensate for weakness (coffee, energy drinks, IVs for sick nurses). Versus God's invitation to spread our empty hands and let him change our emptiness into strength. The story of how eagles use the wind to rise into the air and...

John 20:19-22

Jesus is risen! The tomb is empty! ...and...now what? Jesus appears to the disciples and gives them three things: peace...a mission...and the Spirit. The Risen Christ is our hope and our salvation...but that's just the beginning of...

The world made new, story of the scribe and how every letter is a person. Shared stories of lives changing

Katy Perry sings a song about being hot and cold, yes and no, in and out, up and down. Boy is that ever the story of humanity. And Holy Week gives us a glimpse of how changeable, how unstable we are. Palm Sunday is a glroy day, a "hot" day...

Kay Perry sings a song about being hot and cold, yes and no, in and out, up and down. Boy is that ever the story of humanity. And Holy Week gives us a glimpse of how changeable, how unstable we are. Palm Sunday is a glroy day, a "hot" day...

God says we have a choice in this life- broken cisterns, the things that we can make to provide for ourselves, or springs of living water, the abundant, uncessing life he can provide for us.

What do we hold sacred in our lives? What are the non-negotiables or nearly non-negotiables in our lives? The Scriptures today remind us that sometimes we have to let go of what is sacred--what is 'right'--in order to do what is good.