Good news is not the same as a happy ending. While we celebrate what has been found, we cannot restore what was lost. But we can go on living in hope.
God’s love for us is not tied to fees or dues or down payments, or installment payments, nor does it come with threat of abandonment or repossession. But here’s the twist–it’s not even as much as our individual selves, as it is ourselves in community. We are alive in Christ together, which means we need each other.
AM Psalm 87, 90 PM Psalm 136 Heb. 5:7-14 EfM Online groups and keeps the blog
by Linda Ryan Today being my furlough day from work, I had a little more discretionary time after I got up than I usually do.
Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. And
Luke 24:44-53 Bereft, the disciples stare at the empty sky. The Master has disappeared, this time for good. He turned their worlds upside down, set
Commemoration of Julian of Norwich Isaiah 46:3-5 John 4:23-26 In this little object I saw three truths. The first is that God made it; the
by George Clifford Roughly four decades ago, I did something that I had never done before or again. I conducted an altar call, i.e., invited
Psalm 131 “O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and for evermore.” What is the frame out of which my everyday decisions
Luke 9:18-27: Once when Jesus was praying alone, with only the disciples near him, he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”