See, I am doing a new thing!  Isaiah 43:19 Comment Our verse this week also happens to be our church’s moto text for the year.  I don’t think our church leaders had any idea how relevant this verse would be for us this year.  For our church it has meant re-thinking so much of how we do things but this...

But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Mark 10.32 Comment “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.” – Steve Jobs Do you have a sense of what’s important? Steve...

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am...

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.  Romans 12:15 Comment We sat this week and chatted with some friends who are experiencing the excitement of the impending arrival of their first child – at about the same time later this year that our son and daughter-in-law will present us with our second grandchild.  Very different emotions were...

See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.” Song of Solomon 2:10-13 Comment My...