Ezekiel 34:11-16  The Message 11-16 “‘God, the Master, says: From now on, I myself am the shepherd. I’m going looking for them. As shepherds go after their flocks when they get scattered, I’m going after my sheep. I’ll rescue them from all the places they’ve been scattered to in the storms. I’ll bring them back from foreign peoples, […]

John 4:4-26 And He had to pass through Samaria. So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.read […]

Whether you’re married, single, or widowed; whether you’re wealthy or poor or middle class; whether you’re young or old or middle aged, you have an internal voice that tells you who you are. You have an identity. It’s what we believe about ourselves. And I don’t care which of those categories I just mentioned that […]

We love to see the fall season roll around because many of the crops that have been growing throughout the spring and summer are now ready to be harvested.  All that effort that went into cultivating, planting, fertilizing, and growing now brings about the harvest that it was intended to achieve. This is the very […]

There is a very interesting passage in Ephesians that talks about what our speech should be like.  Again I love the rendering of this passage from The Message in Eph. 5:3-4.  . . . Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don’t […]