Our guest today is called to help women overcome obstacles and break glass ceilings! Chavon Anette Thomas, the Fire Leadership Coach, is passionate about empowering and equipping Millennial Women in Leadership. She’s a woman who loves God, and through worship, the Word, and prayer, she builds her …
Hope
You Say I Am Loved (arranged by Bel Air UMC)
You Say By Lauren Daigle I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not enoughEvery single lie that tells me I will never measure upAm I more than just the sum of every high and every low?Remind me once again just who I am, because I need to know You say I am loved when I can't feel …
Let Us Overflow with Hope
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 Sweet. One of my favorite benedictions. I feel loved and comforted every time I hear it or read it. Yet: How we can “overflow with …
Where Is God in #corona? (Brett Beeson)
There are so, so many things that can be said for, as the millennials call it, #corona. A time to weep: For those who are ill. For families far away, isolated. For those whose depression creeps up the too-close walls or when anxiety rubs too raw. A time to mourn: For those who didn’t …
Rejoice in Hope
About 20 years after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a frightening time of persecution and suffering for many, the apostle Paul encouraged the people of the church in Rome to "[r]ejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer." Surely Paul would say the same thing …
Coming Back (Brett Beeson)
“I just have one question, if I may: why do you keep coming back?” It’s a Wednesday morning. The pastor and I are pressed to the sides of the small (cozy?) Fehrenbacher Hof cafe, elbows and knees contained lest the troop of backpack-laden students, recently arrived, runs us over. In true …
What Does Christmas Really Mean? Hope! (Brett Beeson)
So I’m either horribly behind or horribly ahead of ye olde “power curve” here, but this morning I was thinking about 2016 as a whole: “The Christmas Spirit.” Because as much as people might try, one cardboard Santa and floppy green streamers do not a Christmas make—especially not on a warship once …