What are the objectives of your goals for the New Year? Are they to make you a better person or to come to know Christ better? This was the challenge given by my brother-in-law, Dennis Reitz, in a sermon on the first Sunday of a new year. “Christian living is not a self-improvement program,” he …
Holidays as a Single
A Valentine’s Day Without?
By James Johnson There may not be a rose, But the Rose of Sharon was given to you. There may not be Latin romance, But He walked the Via Dolorosa for you. There may not be a hug, But He outstretched His arms for you. The nails did not hold Him to the cross. …
A Christmas Story of Betrayal
At this time of year the story of Christmas and Christ’s coming to earth as a baby is often portrayed as one which brings warm thoughts to our hearts — a brand new baby, a young mother and her new husband, a twinkling starry night, angels singing, awestruck shepherds, a star over Bethlehem, a cozy …
Handling the Holidays
Holidays. Days you look forward to with excited anticipation, or face with a growing dread? Whichever emotion is attached to the holidays for you, or something on the spectrum in between, focusing on something and Someone beyond feelings is what God calls each of us to, no matter our circumstances. Jeremiah, one of the single …
