Stretching for Home!  The checkered flag awaits our arrival.  The finish line is within sight.  Home plate is within our reach.  A run is about to be scored.  The “team player” is rounding third base and heading for home.  The crowds are cheering; the fans are going crazy—Hebrews 12:1-2!

Stretching for Home!  It’s not about baseball; it’s about Bible Reading & the WORD of God (Jesus).  On September 24, we reached third base in our Year of the Bible.  We read Malachi, the final book of the Old Testament Canon.  On Sunday, September 25, with God’s blessing Continue Reading…

October 2011 Newsletter

October 2011 Worship Helper Calendar

Sing it with me: “We all are one in mission; we all are one in call, our varied gifts united by Christ, the Lord of all.  A single great commission compels us from above to plan and work together that all may know Christ’s love.”—WOV #755.   We are people of the WORD with a “Grand Sweep” Mandate (invitation and command) for Mission.  Continue Reading…

Different!  Difference!  Webster

offers the following definitions: “Unlike, dissimilar, distinct, unusual, special, noticeable change;

disagreement; subtraction.” Continue Reading…

The Book of James makes reference to the sufferings of Job and invites the Christian Community to exercise

patience and endurance as they live through the trials and tribulations of life under the sun, awaiting the parousia of Christ (James 5:7-11).  The Lord is coming with the same certainty as the spring and fall rains.  The harvest is not in doubt; it is fully guaranteed.  God is faithful; His mercies are new every morning.  Is this blessed assurance enough, or do we still require more satisfying answers and explanations?  James writes, “As an example of suffering and patience, beloved, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.  Continue Reading…