How many weeks now have Christmas carols been playing, have holiday tunes been blasting at the supermarket? How long since you could find a station on the radio that doesn’t reference Santa Claus, Rudolph, or the term “jolly”? Just saying — it’s easy to get aural overload with the sounds of …
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Power of Your Words (Mike Van Vranken)
Where Does Your Power Lie? Each of us has been given the power to bless or to curse. But because we haven’t explored that power, we very often harm or wound people without even knowing it. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue” Proverbs 18:21 (NAB). A quick survey of the creation story in …
Relationship Fail (Jennifer Miller, LPC)
My children are blessed with parents that are still married and still very much in love. So when two couples in their lives divorced a couple of years ago, they found it confusing and scary. They had never encountered the possibility that people could stop being married. And when members of those …
Raising Contented Kids (Jennifer Miller, LPC)
“You can’t take it with you.” We all know it, but many of us live like it isn’t true. Our modern culture appears to function on the energy of discontentment. Bigger! Better! Faster! Newer! But, wait! There’s more! When did our wants become needs? When did having stuff become so necessary …
Reflection of God’s Goodness (Brett Beeson)
The Muslims have 99 names for God. The All-Merciful, the Forgiver, the Shaper of Beauty, the Light, the Guide … They see God not as a one-dimensional, wrong-right, yes-no sort of God, but one comprised of many facets, many attributes. In Him, they believe, comes together all aspects of …
Tender Hearts (Rev. Carol Pazdersky)
While gazing at a cluster of bleeding hearts, I remembered the importance of having a tender heart in every area of life. God calls us to be tenderhearted (Ephesians 4:32, 1 Peter 3:8). The one with a tender heart remembers who God is and what Jesus has done, gives freedom to the Spirit to bring …
The Lion and the Lamb (Jennifer Miller, LPC)
So, I sat down to write this blog about the month of March and my mind began to trip over a bunch of associations — there’s March Madness, Spring Break, St. Patrick’s Day, and the Ides of March. But, none of those really sparked anything for me. Instead, I kept finding myself humming a song from …
