André Jenkins leads an interactive discussion and shares his experiences growing up as an African American boy in a poor neighborhood in Fayetteville, North Carolina. During the discussion, he shares…
These last five months of pandemic have been pummeling us into accepting, or reluctantly acquiescing to, restrictions in more areas of our lives than can easily be counted. Simultaneously, the…
Paul and his fellow church planters encountered major, sometimes violent, opposition in their travels throughout the region. There were snakes and stonings and shipwrecks and sabotage and secret plots and…
Where to Focus: On the Seen or the Unseen? Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) seems to typify humankind. We laugh and say: “Squirrel!” We blame the aging process. We attribute it…
May grace and perfect peace cascade over you as you live in the rich knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Everything we could ever need has already been…
Flying by the seat of one’s pants. On-the-job-training. The school of hard knocks. The steep learning curve. Whatever you might call it, Peter’s pulse was racing wildly as he swept…
Picture a lake that evokes these words: placid, limpid, serene, untroubled, transparent, clear. Ahh! That would be a setting providing good medicine for restoring one’s soul. Room to breathe. Space…
“. . . I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight.” Ps.…
A well-known characteristic of earthquakes is a series of aftershocks, some of which are significant in intensity and often damaging, though usually less so than the initial tremor. Pentecost had…
All serious fishermen tell stories of being caught in the rain and getting soaked to the skin. Bringing fish home for dinner made any earlier discomfort worthwhile and increased bragging…
