English 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 [...]
Recently 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 [...]
In 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 [...]
I’ve forgotten the actual date, but I think it was Good Friday,1993, when we had a pageant that included a crucifixion. Our worship area at that time was rather patched together and we did [...]
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will [...]
My friend Martha and I have a lot in common — we’re both believers, we both have an adventurous streak, and we share a truly terrible sense of direction. We swap stories of amazing [...]
This week we are looking at the second half of Genesis 18, the story of Abraham, God, and Sodom and Gomorrah. The question I was given to explore has to do with God’s character. [...]
One of the oldest arguments against the existence of a good God is the philosophical conundrum, the problem of evil. It goes like this: If God is all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful, how can evil [...]
by 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 [...]
by 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 [...]
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