Okay rain, stop.
My mom, a farmer’s wife, has what to her is a treasure on her back deck—a rain gauge. While meteorologists may have slightly more sophisticated data collecting software, she’s faithful in writing daily rainfall amounts on a pad on her refrigerator. So yes, there’s August, 2018. Totals vary across our…
Divided or united on baptism, you decide
Well, happy day. Or actually—happy days. Two young couples are having their young babies baptized this month on back to back Sundays. Both couples recognize God’s gift in their newborns. Professing their faith to God, they want to ensure eternal safety with their son in one case, and their daughter…
If at first you don’t succeed…maybe you weren’t supposed to.
If at first you don’t succeed…maybe you weren’t supposed to. 2 Samuel 7:1-16 Our culture elevates success. So-so is okay, but spectacular? Now, that’s something else! We’ve all had that teacher whose classroom walls were unimaginatively decorated with motivational posters or sayings intended to inspire us from our mediocre to…