62 Years

62 Years

What’s your favorite number? You might remember the number on your jersey when you played a sport or from one of the athletes you cheer. You might recall a date from an important life experience. You might reflect on a time of smaller numbers on prices or larger...
Diversity and Unity: Praying Together

Diversity and Unity: Praying Together

Diversity and unity can help us walk out of our own doors to see the outside splendor. And it can help us walk outside those doors with a friend—of a different race or tradition or stream—walking with us. I’ve been thinking of one experience during a Sunday service at...
A Prayer

A Prayer

Today, dear God, Guide my hopes and selfish schemes  to peer beyond the in-betweens. Then steer my love to life around me. Each day, all day, help me to stay in pace with You. Can You help, heal? Slow me down, make me real? Dear God, today, I pray You will.  (by Chris...
Plans For The Summer

Plans For The Summer

See possibilities for acts of kindness. Choose to live in love, replacing missed opportunities with ministry moments: • Smile at a friend. Thank them for the many blessings they bring your way. • Smile at a stranger. A glance from eyes of one displaying God’s love is...
Don’t Miss the Adventure of Now

Don’t Miss the Adventure of Now

Pausing doesn’t end correctly by concluding with a time of respite and reflection. Those are appetizers preparing us to be the people we truly crave to be. It isn’t all internal. It moves us forward, upward, outward. What do we become? World changers. Lovers. Friends....