A Rocky Start?
Bruce Hanson2024-07-07T16:08:26-06:00“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the [...]
The Dwelling Place
Jeanne Melberg2024-07-06T08:59:00-06:00Standing on God’s promises is the result of building our life on a firm foundation. Matthew 7:24-25 reads, “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a [...]
Just Along for the Ride?
Kathleen Petersen2024-07-06T08:13:33-06:00But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is [...]
Jesus Flips the Script
Sherry Sommer2024-07-06T08:37:52-06:00“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds [...]
What is the Gospel?
Grace Hunter2024-05-11T11:11:32-06:00Each of us have shared a personal story in the last week of how the gospel has impacted us personally. We have also shared about circumstances in our lives when doubts about God’s goodness or [...]
Learning to See Jesus
Sherry Sommer2024-05-11T10:54:13-06:00For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. [...]
The Goodest News!!
Bruce Hanson2024-05-11T10:30:09-06:00English teachers in our midst, please forgive my ungrammatical title. My prompt for today was to share my personal experience with the Gospel, or more precisely, the Good News. As I considered it, I felt [...]
Carolyn’s Story and the Gospel
Carolyn Schmitt2024-05-11T10:11:46-06:00Recently I found a story I wrote as an assignment for a correspondence course in “Writing for Children and Teenagers” that I was taking in 1992. This particular story was supposed to be a [...]
The Gospel is More
Kathleen Petersen2024-05-11T09:22:17-06:00In my Nebraska hometown farming community, couples often married young. When I was 15 my mother gave me a marriage hope chest just like this one, even though I had no boyfriend. I [...]
Thirst for Vengeance or Wholeness?
Kathleen Petersen2024-02-25T18:17:18-07:00by Kathleen Petersen Throughout the 1970s I lived in Washington, DC, which has more than twice as many lawyers per capita than any other U.S. city. After that decade, I was drawn to enter [...]
