by Janet Keefe I have been puzzling over something lately. The question I have is this, “What is more important, who I am inside, or how I represent Christ to others?” I am His workmanship, which is pretty amazing, but, while I am marveling that He created, loved, and died Read more…
By Sam McKeen Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. – Colossians 3:12-14 As Read more…
by Rebecca Murzin And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. – James 3:6 The tongue is a powerful thing. We can curse, Read more…
by Janet Keefe Maybe spring is a little shy. Reluctant, perhaps, before trees suddenly grow fat with green leaves and tiny flower buds burst into explosions of color and texture. Tentative, possibly knowing the inconsistency of New England winters, life pauses hesitantly, for a couple of weeks after Easter. It Read more…
By Sam McKeen But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes Read more…
By Rebecca Murzin And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will Read more…
By Janet Keefe It was Palm Sunday, over 2000 years ago. Imagine you were there. People were waving palm branches exuberantly and placing their cloaks on the ground reverently before Jesus, who was riding a donkey. If you were there sometime before Palm Sunday, you might have sat on a Read more…
By Sam McKeen A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” – John 13:34-35 (ESV) Read more…
By Rebecca Murzin Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Psalm 103:1 We should be continually praising God, because He is worthy of all our praise. He is all powerful, all knowing, the creator of the universe, the King of Kings, Read more…
By Janet Keefe A perspective of John 4:4-42 It was midday when she left the house, and it was oppressively hot outside. The sun was high, and was blazingly bright; the heat scorched the ground and she felt it radiating on her skin. Although the temperature was blistering, everyone else Read more…