by Roger Wade | Mar 9, 2022 | Devotionals
1 Samuel 2:8-9 I was once advised by a Christian friend, “If you worry, don’t pray and if you pray, don’t worry.” Anyone who prays about an issue and asks God to take care of it and then continues to worry about it insults our awesome God. Of course, that’s easy to...
by Thelma Carlson | Mar 2, 2022 | Devotionals
With all that is going on in our world, it is easy to allow ourselves to be overcome by feelings of despair. The news shows us a deeply divided country, with daily reports of protests, injustices directed toward others, and negativity. Our own church is struggling...
by Donna Maley | Feb 23, 2022 | Devotionals
This week’s reflection provided by Donna Maley: This past Sunday, the readings were Genesis 45:3-11 and Luke 6:27-38. In the Genesis passage, Joseph sees his brothers years after they had sold him into slavery. His brothers feared him, but he was very gracious...
by Diane Crosthwaite | Feb 9, 2022 | Devotionals
Philippians 4:4-6 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let all men know your forebearance. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. How...
by Candra Brown | Feb 2, 2022 | Devotionals
Luke 2:22-40 When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male shall be designated as holy to the Lord”), and...
by Kathleen Kinney | Jan 26, 2022 | Devotionals
On Sunday, Rev. Dr. Harsh spoke to us about the God’s Gift for the World using Paul’s letter in Corinth. The scripture includes, but is not limited to 1 Corinthians 12:12-14: “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body,...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Jan 19, 2022 | Devotionals
Hebrews 6:1-12 “Therefore let us go on toward perfection, leaving behind the basic teaching about Christ, and not laying again the foundation: repentance from dead works and faith toward God, 2instruction about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead,...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Jan 12, 2022 | Devotionals
Genesis 4:1-16 “Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, ‘I have produced a man with the help of the LORD.’ Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground” (Genesis 4:1-2) In the second...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Dec 29, 2021 | Devotionals
2 John 1:1-13 “Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, in truth and love….” “And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the...
by Rev. Jeffrey A. Schooley | Dec 22, 2021 | Devotionals
Luke 1:57-66 “Then they began motioning to his father to find out what name he wanted to give him. 63He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, ‘His name is John.’ And all of them were amazed. 64Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue freed, and he began to...
