The Eternal Posture
Jeanne Melberg2024-06-22T23:20:04-06:00When I was a child, I thought as a child… but when I became a man, I put away childish things” (1 Corinthians 13:11). Similarly, when I was a childlike Christian, I foolishly asked [...]
Us 4 & No More?
Kathleen Petersen2024-06-02T13:27:24-06:00Although we love the idea of diversity, we usually experience the togetherness aspect of Christianity in local, fairly homogenous congregations. Although those settings often provide optimum environments for spiritual growth, grasping the larger picture [...]
The Murmuration of Christ
Jeanne Melberg2024-06-01T10:02:52-06:00Man is a spirit, and no spirit walks in isolation. Once we enter into a covenant with Christ, by design we enter into a covenant with each other. We become one body of Christ [...]
The Waiting Game
Bruce Hanson2024-06-01T09:34:02-06:00When I read narratives in the Bible, I always do my very best to put myself there. What is happening isn’t so obvious (black and white). These are real people! How were they feeling? [...]
Fulfilling the Great Commission
Sherry Sommer2024-06-01T11:39:27-06:00Then the [disciples] gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know [...]
The Promised Holy Spirit
Grace Hunter2024-06-01T11:03:49-06:00"If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world [...]
Glow in the Darkness
Kathleen Petersen2024-04-27T18:22:23-06:00by Kathleen Petersen Earlier this week you received words from some of my fellow Devotional Team members about the shade cast on Jesus’ reputation by dishonorable conduct of self-identified Christians. Such examples prompt doubt [...]
Ease of Identifying with Christian Faith – Dims the Spark?
Sherry Sommer2024-04-28T13:57:12-06:00by Sherry Sommer Throughout decades of being a Christian, I’ve grown in some churches and have gotten frustrated and cynical in others. Just because well meaning people meet in a “Church” building that doesn’t [...]
An Examined Faith Gathers No Moss
Jeanne Melberg2024-06-20T12:36:31-06:00by Jeanne Melberg “With all sorts of doubts I am familiar, and the result of them is, has been, and will be, a widening of my heart and soul and mind to greater glories of [...]
When Christians Abuse
Aaron Bjorklund2025-06-19T10:33:35-06:00by Aaron Bjorklund One of the saddest realities is the fact that it is so easy to make a case against Christianity based on how Christians behave. There are far too many examples of Christians [...]
