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…
Last week Pastor Dorry introduced our study on the Book of Romans and told you that it was my idea...that I love the book of Romans. And she was right..I…
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…
Jesus was not sending these 70 people on vacation, that’s for sure!Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals...what??? If I was going away and those were my instructions, I would…
“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…
“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…
I was standing in line for the flume ride on a hot summer day a couple years ago at an amusement park in central Pennsylvania, when a very happy Saturday…
Anybody else doing a lot of sneezing lately in the last week or so? Spring is here, and everything is so beautiful! But for me at least, there is a…