Normality and the Pressure to Fit In We generally think about peer pressure as something that affects children and adolescents, but it affects adults too. How many times have we sat in a meeting and there was a public vote on...

Experiencing the Word of God Psalm 37:4 says “take delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.” I have readand heard this verse of Scripture many times. When reading it or hearing it, it seems as though...

God Has a Plan for Your Life “For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for yourwelfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.” (Jer. 29:11) Life so often feels like a grind.We follow our daily...

The Long Green Season This is the unofficial name for the Season after Pentecost in which we now enter. Here in our part of the world, it mirrors the greenery around us. Indeed, the green season has returned, or is it in bloom for...

 The Season of Bloom The hymn writer John Macleod Campbell writes, “Now the green blade rises from the buried grain, wheat that in dark earth many days has lain.” We are well into the season of...

"Newsletter for Easter 2024" You have heard that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but there are some things that are beautiful to most everyone. The story found in John 12:1-8 is such a thing. It is a...

“ The Christian in the World” We are just four weeks away from Palm Sunday and five weeks away from Easter. Before the month of March is over, landscapers will be treating yards with pre-emergent...