Carolyn Schmitt

The Holy Spirit Points to Jesus   “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the...

The Perfect Life Revelation 21:1-5 Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its...

The Places The people of South Evangelical Presbyterian Fellowship met for our first worship service at the Denver Christian High School gym on Sunday, September 30, 1979.   As I recall, one of the main scriptures...

When Phil and I got married at South Presbyterian Church in March of 1965, he had not been attending a church for several years.  He was a shy, quiet, introvert, but he agreed to join...

Recently a group of us were talking about what it would be like to have been present when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the donkey. Who might have been in the crowd following him, waving...

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father...

It must be 40 years since Psalm 139 has become my goto psalm for praying for myself.  I love that the Lord knows me so well that my thoughts, words, actions, even my attempts to...

Although the word “holy”  appears more than 600 times in the Bible, there are only two times that it appears three times in succession.  The first is in Isaiah 6:1-4 In the year that King...

John 11:1-43 In the “Introduction” to his book, Brave Companions, historian David McCullough, makes this statement: “The past after all is only another name for someone else’s present. How would things turn out? They knew...

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 “fictionalized”...

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 a...

by Carolyn Schmitt I have a lot of respect for Nicodemus. Though it isn’t recorded, he must have been in various crowds when Jesus was telling parables and healing various people. So, the more he...