April 24th, 2024

Read 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!  It has taken us a while to get here…and I almost hesitate to say it outloud…but I think spring is finally here!  The trees are budded out and flowers are beginning […]

April 23rd, 2024

Read John 8:31b-36 NIV  Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?” Jesus […]

April 22nd, 2024

Read 1 John 1:5-9 NIV This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.  If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.  But if we […]

April 21st, 2024

Read Psalm 38:4 NIV My guilt has overwhelmed me  like a burden too heavy to bear. Sin is a heavy thing to carry.  Yet sometimes we wear it like we have to. It is as if sin is like an old coat that hangs in our closet and it’s the only thing we have to […]

April 20th, 2024

Read: James 1:17 NIV Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. Pray: Our Creator, You see all of time and space spread out in front of You. Our lives seem to dance and shimmer and change from moment […]

April 19th, 2024

Read: Isaiah 55:8-13 NRSV For my thoughts are not your thoughts,    nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.For as the heavens are higher than the earth,    so are my ways higher than your ways    and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from […]

April 18th, 2024

Read: Romans 6:20-23 NRSV When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, […]

April 17th, 2024

Read: Matthew 6:9-15 NRSV ‘Pray then in this way:Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not bring us to […]

April 16th, 2024

Read: Matthew 6:7-8 NRSV ‘When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. – “Well, I do think someone might have […]

April 15th, 2024

Have you ever laid awake at night, reliving a moment over and over in your head? Maybe it’s a small, insignificant memory, but the consequences of that moment have changed the trajectory of your life? I often wonder how my life would have been different if I hadn’t said such and such to somebody, or […]