by Jack Williamson | Feb 7, 2021 | Articles
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...
by Andy Wall | Jan 31, 2021 | Articles
“This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.” – Bill Murray, Groundhog Day This Tuesday is Groundhog Day, a North American tradition observed in the US and Canada on February 2. Its origins...
by Andy Wall | Jan 24, 2021 | Articles
Twenty years ago this past week, I began my ministry with the Conejo Valley Church of Christ. It was a week before the inauguration of President George W. Bush and nine months before the calamitous events of 9/11. Our daughters were 7, 4 and 2 years old and I was what...
by Andy Wall | Jan 17, 2021 | Articles
[Editor’s note: today’s timely meditation by Landon Saunders invites us to reflect on our humanity in light of Micah 6:8.] I woke up this morning thinking about the question that has guided my life and work most: What does it mean to be a human being? It’s Tuesday...
by Andy Wall | Jan 10, 2021 | Articles
This week’s article was written before the events of Wednesday, January 6. While we realize that feelings of shock, sadness, and unrest are more prevalent now than the sentiments expressed in this poem, we do feel that this will be a good reminder for us to...
by Andy Wall | Jan 3, 2021 | Articles
Happy new year! First of all, I have no significant predictions to offer for the next twelve months; 2020 cured me of that! Second, I invite you to consider a disposition you can cultivate that I (ahem!) predict could make a big difference for your life this coming...
by Andy Wall | Dec 20, 2020 | Articles
“Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.” Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then...
by Jack Williamson | Dec 13, 2020 | Articles
It is hard to believe that we are in the third week of Advent – just two weeks away from Christmas! This year, 2020, has dragged on with difficulty, yet it also seems to have flown by! Before you know it we will be ringing in the new year 2021. Doubtless we all...
by Jack Williamson | Dec 6, 2020 | Articles
Blessed are the cheesemakers. When I was in college, my friends and I found the British comedy troupe Monty Python to be pretty close to the height of comedy. Their movie, The Life of Brian, is one that I cannot really recommend. It skirts the edge of blasphemy and at...
by Andy Wall | Nov 29, 2020 | Articles
“So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest-time, if we do not give up. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith.” Galatians 6:9-10 The year 2020 has...
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