Introducing the New Genevan Psalter
For over 450 years, churches, families, and individuals throughout the world have used some or other version of the Genevan Psalter to pray and praise using the Psalms. In fact, this is the only...
View ArticleAscension Day
Jesus will return on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. Today Christians throughout the world remember our Lord’s ascension into heaven. Even though Jesus Christ has ascended to heaven,...
View ArticleWhat God Has Done for Me
“Come and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me.” Psalm 66: 16 Why did this nuthatch die? Why do people suffer endlessly so that death seems a welcome relief? Why is...
View ArticleSend Me, O Lord
Harvest and home, long ago When we look around at the world and the church, there’s so much work to be done. Sometimes it’s overwhelming, yet we so eagerly want to contribute. When Christina Rossetti...
View ArticleSharing a Weekly Blessing: Sermon Links
It took me just a few clicks of the mouse on my elderly friend’s computer and then he discovered the treasure he had been longing for. He sat back with his gentle smile spread full across his face and...
View ArticleThe Hardest Prayer
The Son of Man shall come on the clouds with great power and glory. (Mark 13:26) As we celebrate Christ’s first coming, we also look forward to his second coming, when there will be no more death, no...
View ArticleCatch Up, My Goal for 2016
Some years I have very lofty goals. Other years, and 2016 is one of them, my goals are much more mundane. In 2016 my goal is to catch up: to catch up on all the things I have started that need...
View ArticleNoticing Miracles
A miracle: 9 stunning flowers from one amaryllis bulb. Life is full of miracles, but we so seldom see them. Especially when daily details discourage us, dragging our eyes downward, or pain stuns us,...
View ArticleWhen Mom is Seriously Ill—Couch Schooling Attitudes
Love from a child, in the form of freshly-made banana ice cream, chocolate chips, and frozen strawberries. Two times in my life I’ve had a major health scare. Eight years ago, a preliminary diagnosis...
View ArticleGod Presents the Savior: Behold My Servant
Throughout the entire Old Testament, repeatedly and in many ways, we are confronted with our need for a Savior. Then in Isaiah 42:1-4, God presents him to us. “Behold, my servant,” he proclaims...
View ArticleSearching for the Positive
As I was outlining the possible outcomes of a dreaded medical appointment to Miss 18, she said, “There, now you’ve said something positive about each possibility.” And I responded, “Well, since God is...
View ArticleTo Us A Child is Born!
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah...
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