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Photo Credit Ralph Felzer A HUMBLE PRAYER FOR YOU Since our prayer service this past Sunday (wasn't that awesome, by the way?) I've been thinking quite a lot about prayer and trouble and humility, so I thought I would share a few insights with you, and then I want to pray for you!  I hope you'll be blessed.  Let me know! We are coming off of a Christmas season that, as always, has been wonderful for some but sorrowful for others.  It's good for us to think back on the past ye

Photo by Ralph Felzer A LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS We all know that God spoke the whole of Creation into being in Genesis 1.  "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…."  Day and night, sea and sky, stars and planets, and human beings.     And then, in a work of incredible beauty and profound complexity, the Apostle John picks up this creation melody at the very beginning of his gospel.  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word

Image by Makoto Tsuka on Unsplash INTO THE DEEP END Okay, so I know it's Thanksgiving week, but I also know that many of us are going to be struggling our way through it, so this won't be your typical Thanksgiving piece.  My hope is that you'll find God's peace in the season you're in, and that these words might serve as a sort of lifejacket while you struggle through whatever deep waters you find yourself in today. When I was forty I learned how to swim.  Yep, that's right,

Photo by Ralph Felzer STRENGTH FOR THE JOURNEY "I am severely afflicted– give me life, O Lord, according to Your word."  ~Psalm 119:107 It's hard not to be overwhelmed by the sheer number of griefs, sorrows, and sufferings going on in our midst these days.  They run the gamut from threats to the roofs over our heads, to the safety and well-being of our children, to our own chronic illnesses and disease.  When a great sorrow hits, the weight of it just seems to collapse onto o

Image by Annie Spratt on Unsplash LIFE IN THE MIDDLE VOICE "Only let us hold fast to what we have already attained" (Phil. 3:16). There...

Photo credit: Ralph Felzer EVERY MOMENT IS SACRED Our current Sunday series on Ecclesiastes is teaching us that life experienced "under...

Image by Oskars Sylwan on Unsplash FINDING INTIMACY WITH GOD Have you noticed how many new faces we have at Grace these days?  Just a...

Photo by Elisa Photography on Unsplash THE COMFORT OF HIS PRESENCE Good morning, friends, it's been a while!  I've been thinking about...

Image generated by AI at stockcake.com ABIDING IN CHRIST IS THE ABUNDANT LIFE Like a river full of water,     God enriches the earth and...