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A Bunch of Honking and Yelling

[Editor’s note: Today’s guest article, by Conejo’s own Jon Burke, provides a self-reflective meditation on the impact we have on fellow believers and the importance of being allies to one another.] “As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to...

A Friend of Sinners

“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.” Matthew 9:12-13 Today we begin our annual 40-Day Spiritual Adventure,...

Longing for the Promised Land

When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait for the day I would be a “grown-up.” I longed to make my own decisions and direct my own life. I had no thoughts of the other “grown-up” things such as deadlines, mortgage payments, and taxes. All I could fantasize about was, “I’m...

Returning from Exile

Isaiah 51:11 reads: Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. I have often wondered what those ancient Israelites felt...