Around Every Corner
This summer I have harvested quite a bit of produce from my garden. Tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers in particular. I put up 7 quarts…
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Spirit of Self-Control
Many of you know that I spent some time this spring focusing on my health. I joined a gym, worked out five times a week,…
The Spirit of Patience
Patience is not a virtue that comes easily to us. Some of us are built with fairly short fuses. I think it is because we…
Lessons for the Journey
Last winter, my immediate family planned a trip to Hawaii to escape the cold and the snow. We often like to travel all together, but…
Rusty Leftovers
I want to start out this morning with a testimony… This is my experience and I hope and pray that my own story might somehow…
Everyday, Ordinary Worship
It’s Sunday morning. According to the Pew Research Center, even though 77% of adults in Iowa claim the Christian faith, only 36% of those people…
God’s Love Never Fails
This is our fourth week with the prophets of the Old Testament, and one of the things I hope you realize is that they weren’t…
Inward, Outward, Upward
Since the first Sunday in November, we’ve been talking about the “Already” and the “Not Yet.” We’ve been waiting for the day, for the moment…