Philippians 2:1-4 Does your life in Christ give you strength? Does his love comfort you? Do we share together in the Spirit? Do you have mercy and kindness? 2 If so, make me very happy by having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and having one mind and purpose. 3 When you do things, do not let selfishness […]

Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,  neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. There is an old […]

1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us. I love this passage of scripture partly because of the word that is NOT there.  Notice that it doesn’t say we love HIM because He first loved us—It says that we LOVE because He first loved us.  Our very capacity to love, the reason that […]

1 John 3:1 See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. I just came from the funeral service for Marva Ann Wood.  It was […]

Schedule Saturday—January 12 8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast 8:30-9:30 Session One—What We Must Know About Grief & Recovery 9:45-10:45 Session Two—Myths and ‘Myth-information’ About Grief 11:00-12:00 Session Three—How to Climb Out of the ‘Pit of Grief’ 12:15-1:00 Helping the Broken-Hearted—The ‘Do’s and Don’ts’ Questions-Open Discussion Sunday—January 13 9 AM Combined Bible Class: GOD, Faith, Grief and Me […]

1 Thessalonians 3:12  12 May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. Good mood (as well as bad mood) is contagious. When someone is laughing and radiates “inner sunshine” that person it seems attracts people. Everyone wants some of “the sunshine” to “rub […]

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 23 We pray that God himself, the God of peace, will make you pure—belonging only to him. We pray that your whole self—spirit, soul, and body—will be kept safe and be blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes. 24 The one who chose you will do that for you. You can trust him. (ERV) 23-24 May […]

1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,               3 remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, Back […]

1 Timothy 2:1-4, Romans 10:1, Ephesians 6:19 “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge […]

Colossians 4:12 12 Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured. How do we pray? Is it passive? Is it short? Is it scripted? Is it easy? Is it poetic? Is […]