“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30 NIV) This is the greatest commandment Jesus gave his followers. We are to love the Lord with every fiber of our beings. Heart. Soul. Mind. Strength. What happens, though,…
] I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the…
I never thought I’d find myself in liturgy. I was raised in the Church of Christ in Texas in the 1990s. My father was raised Episcopalian in Texas in the 1960s, only because there happened to be an Episcopal church across the street from his house. My father’s father was raised Swiss Mennonite in Kansas…
During a nine-month study on the book of Romans, our small group found ourselves discussing chapter 12 the same week Reverend Billy Graham passed from earth to heaven. Our discussion began with what it looks like to live a life as a living sacrifice, as addressed in Romans 12:1–2. Romans 12:1–2 (CSB) says, “Therefore, brothers…
“Any time you say, ‘That fed me, that nourished me,’ someone was the broken bread for your fulfillment.” ~Jen Hatmaker (Interrupted) I vividly remember an autumn day when I left my morning Bible study as weary as when I arrived. It was no fault of the material, the facilitator, or the setting. It had everything to…
“To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” ~Charles Spurgeon Every year as part of our library board audit, I have to answer the question, “Have you committed any fraud with library funds?” Of course, I have not. Yet also of course, if I had, I wouldn’t admit it there, emblazoned on a…