I'm about to confess something that may make me wildly unpopular, but here goes: I don't really like New Year's Eve/Day as a holiday. Author's note: Please filter this post with the understanding that as I write this, I am by turns smiling, laughing, and teary-eyed. I am by no means sitting on my couch… Continue reading The confessions of a New Year’s Scrooge
Tag: Christ
Lined with Gold
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 1 Corinthians 13:12 Yesterday, as I was driving through the countryside from an out-of-town funeral, I looked down the road and saw a magnificent rain… Continue reading Lined with Gold
Christmas 2013: “I came that they may have life”
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." John 10:10 I've said it many times before -- I hate death. In fact, anyone that has breathed, I would guess, has said those words at least once... some years, more than once. A… Continue reading Christmas 2013: “I came that they may have life”
Saturday Song: See the Conqueror
This is a new song we've recently started singing at church. There is a wonderful version by Jenny & Tyler on Youtube. This is the original hymn text a good friend of mine showed me this week. There are 10 verses (yes, 10!), but all part of the same, amazing, wonderful, true story. See, the… Continue reading Saturday Song: See the Conqueror
The Lord is Risen
Reblog: A Day of Remembering
From the archives: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son... There are many days set aside on the U.S. calendar as days of remembering. We remember to give thanks in November. We remember our independence. We remember 9/11. We remember to honor our Veterans. We remember our Grandparents. We… Continue reading Reblog: A Day of Remembering
Good Friday: The atoning sacrifice
For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin. As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” “Their throat is an open grave; they… Continue reading Good Friday: The atoning sacrifice
Grief and the Hope
Yesterday in China, 22 little children were slashed as they got off the bus by a man wielding a knife. Today, in Connecticut, teachers, staff, and children were shot to death inside their elementary school. As a teacher, I can't even imagine the depths of those teachers' devastation and I long for Monday to come… Continue reading Grief and the Hope
The Steadfast Love of God
I haven't been one for posting the past few months, which will change (hopefully) with the coming of Summer. The only thing I have for today is really worth listening to on repeat: this Sunday's sermon on Psalm 136. Click here for audio, or keep reading below. His Steadfast Love Endures Forever Psalms 136:1-26 by… Continue reading The Steadfast Love of God
Immanuel: God with us
They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. My servant David shall be king… Continue reading Immanuel: God with us
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