Do you ever think that once whatever you’re struggling with is over, then you’ll be able to be joyful? Does “joy” as most of us think of it sometimes feel contingent on things going well or being “right” in our world?
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Most of us at one time or another in our lives have experienced music that so deeply resonates in our soul we can’t help but join in. What’s that about? Why is it that music moves us so?
What do you normally do to prepare for Christmas? If you’re like most of us the season is filled with shopping for gifts, baking, decorating, wrapping the aforementioned gifts and placing them under a beautifully decorated tree in eager expectation of Christmas morning.
Because this year marks the 300th anniversary of the beloved classic Christmas hymn, “Joy to the World,” we’ve chosen Joy to the World as our worship and study theme for this Advent season.
The writer of Ephesians in our text for this week is really stretching it. What he’s stretching is language — he’s grasping for the words to express the inexpressible.
When Paul wrote the scripture we’ll be focusing on this Sunday in the Sanctuary Service, he was in prison. Perhaps that is why, in this letter to the Philippians (4:4-9), Paul is so focused on the interior life — the head and the heart.
When I think of the word, saint, I tend to think first about the specific qualities or attributes that actually makes someone a saint.
This week we’ll conclude our fall Facing Life’s Storms worship series with “A Center of Calm in the Storm.” In this very familiar passage, Jesus and his disciples were out in a boat together and a storm was raging — and Jesus was asleep in the boat.
Are you a worrier? Most of us at some point probably are. Let’s face it — there’s a lot to worry about these days. And of course, worry does have its place. But worry can also weigh us down, can’t it? Sometimes it can even make us sick.
When I think about facing change, I am always reminded of the 100-year-old woman who, when someone said, “I bet you’ve seen a lot of changes in your life,” she replied, “Yep, and I’ve been against every one of ‘em.”