Advent: Angels We Have Heard
December 20th, 2024
Like so many other things, angels are a central component to many Christmas decorations and scenes. Cards and lawns and shelves are adorned with nativity scenes that showcase a young mother and father...  Read More
by Scott Downing
Advent: The Good Shepherd
December 13th, 2024
The third week of advent is arriving, and as such, we are looking at joy and at shepherds. On the surface, it is an amazing and unusual thing that God chose to announce the birth of the Messiah, the f...  Read More
by Scott Downing
Advent: House of Bread
December 6th, 2024
Bread is life. It is sustenance. It is a symbol of peace. It is a symbol of friendship. The Christmas story begins in a town called “House of Bread.” Jesus was, and is, the Bread of Life. He brings pe...  Read More
by Scott Downing
God With Us
November 29th, 2024
His purpose and plan, the Truth, was that He would provide a way to reunify Himself with us. God with us is the truth of God proclaimed throughout eternity....  Read More
by Scott Downing
Blessings & Generosity
November 20th, 2024
When we look at our lives, God truly has blessed us abundantly, just as He promises in John 10:10. That abundance may look different in your life than it does in mine, and we may not have everything t...  Read More
by Scott Downing
Jesus' Model of Thankfulness
November 13th, 2024
Sometimes, God allows us to go through times of difficulty or frustration or annoyance or exhaustion or pain or confusion, and it has nothing to do with us. The hardship that we are facing is not abou...  Read More
by Scott Downing
Election Day
November 5th, 2024
If we are Christians we stand under His banner, so proudly display that banner and don’t muddy it with smear or hatred, don’t neglect it out of fear and anxiety, and don’t outshine it with love and pr...  Read More
by Scott Downing
Mummies
October 30th, 2024
When sin entered the world, sin being anything that goes against God’s design and intended purpose for us, humanity fell under a curse, not a Mummy Curse, but a Sin Curse. We were no longer doing what...  Read More
by Scott Downing
Love God: With All Your Strength
October 23rd, 2024
Loving God with all your strength means that you don’t merely gain head knowledge of God, but you actually put what you learned into action. You change your behavior. You sacrifice. You help people....  Read More
by Scott Downing
Love God: With All Your Mind
October 16th, 2024
God is both approachable and knowable. While we can never fully know Him. He invites us to gain knowledge and wisdom and to use our minds in our love of Him....  Read More
by Scott Downing
Love God: With All Your Soul
October 9th, 2024
“God, I will choose, in my living, in my breathing, in my experiencing life, to love you in it and through it. I have a million options for what I do in this life and how I navigate it, but I am going...  Read More
by Scott Downing
Labor of Love
October 2nd, 2024
Love never fails, love always wins. Hatred may gain ground every once in a while, but love will always win in the end, as it did on the cross. Hatred doesn’t win, violence doesn’t win. Love wins....  Read More
by Thomas Bailey
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