Led by the Spirit

July 11, 2021
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.”  What a powerful statement!  If there’s one thing I hope people can say about us here…
Last week my husband Phil and I were on vacation up in New England.  On our first full day, we stopped in the afternoon for ice cream at Friendly’s.  There…
There were two groups of Christians in the early church, who came at things from very different perspectives.  The first “on-ramp” to the Christian way was by being Jewish.  The…
 The American poet Maya Angelou wrote, “I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she handles three things:  a rainy day, lost…
About 3,000 new converts in one day. Can you imagine that?  What a spectacular success!  Peter preached to the crowd gathered on Pentecost, and explained the gospel to them.  The…
“We boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured…

The Candor of Courage

May 2, 2021
“Simon, I have something to tell you.”  Our subject today is candor, being honest and direct in a considerate way.  We’ve all had times in our lives when we needed…