April 27, 2016

Tonight we are deploying our troops to prayer walk our surrounding neighborhoods and communities. Use the prayer guide below to guide your prayer walking experience for our “Go There Prayer Walk.” Continue using this guide as a resource to help focus your daily prayers as well.   Praise God for who He is. Great is […]

Love of a Lifetime

Love of a Lifetime And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. – Ephesians 5:2 In June my parents will celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. It fills me with so much pride (not the bad kind) to be the daughter of such […]

April 20, 2016

Go There. Prayer. For the next four weeks our church will join together in a season of prayer leading up to National Day of Prayer. This past Wednesday, we gathered to watch War Room, a movie portraying the power of fighting our battles in prayer. I invite you to join us tonight (April 20, 2016) […]

Blessed Assurance …These Kids Can’t be Mine!

I know we’ve all been there. Maybe you are there right now. I go there just about every other week—to that place where I believe every aspect of my life must be PERFECT! Per.fect. PERFECT, I SAY! And of course, it’s not. The house: Why doesn’t my house look like Pottery Barn catalogs? How did […]

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church. – Acts 12:5 What is prayer? Is it a wish, a dream, or a ritual? Does it really matter if we pray? Many Christians believe that we should pray, but do we truly believe that something powerful […]

Go There With Compassion

This devotion was written by Suella Jones. It was an unusual sight even in the early 1950’s—a mother and her children walked along the country dirt road a few miles from the small town where they lived carrying a pot filled with home raised, home cooked vegetables. Two of the older children each had a […]

April 6, 2016

So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians. ­­­­––Acts 11:25-26 What is in a name? For believers in Jesus Christ, […]

Set Free to Live Free

Romans. I love reading Romans. The whole book is a rich assembly of deep theology and beautiful explanations of God’s redemptive plan for us. But Romans can be hard to digest in large quantities. It’s like eating steak and baked potato for every meal, followed by a peanut butter milkshake—so good, but so heavy. Reading […]