A high-rise tower hit by Israeli forces in Gaza City, October 2023 Credit: Ashraf Amra / Reuters War in the Middle East is sadly becoming a cliché. But the horror suffered by victims when brutally attacked this past Saturday is not just another senseless attempt at...
No one patches up an old coat with a piece of new cloth, for the new patch will shrink and make an even bigger hole in the coat. Matthew 9:16-17 Questions for Life Groups Read Matthew 9:16-17. How do these parables relate to your faith? In what ways did your identity...
Last week, we explored some factors that can cause us to feel unworthy to be called by God to do particular tasks or to take on a challenge. We discovered that feelings of unworthiness often surface when our actions contradict our values. As believers, we strive to...
He saw a tax collector, Levi son of Alphaeus, sitting in his office. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” Levi got up and followed him. Mark 2:13-17 Questions for Life Groups Read Mark 2:13-17. Read the same story in Luke 5:27-32. Can you place yourself in the role of...
Welcome to the first episode of our new worship series, Words. Each week there is a reading assignment in our companion book, Woman of Words by Angela Hunt. Reading along with us is completely optional. I plan to recap each week’s chapters and focus on one or more of...
Welcome to the first episode of our new worship series, Words. Each week there is a reading assignment in our companion book, Woman of Words, by Angela Hunt. You don't have to read with us. I'll summarize the chapters and point out references to Bible stories. We...
Our companion book for our new worship series is Angela Hunt's third book in her Jerusalem Road Series. A Woman of Words recounts the time after the Resurrection of Jesus when the church first takes root as His followers share the good news. The narrators are two...
Some seeds fell along the path…some fell on rocky ground…some fell among thorn bushes… some seeds fell in good soil. Matthew 13:1-8 Questions for Life Groups Read Matthew 13:1-8. You may want to continue reading through verse 23 where Jesus explains His parable. What...
Corky Pickering, in an opinion article for the Red Bluff Daily, shared a couple of stories as illustrations of the common human experience known as the coincidence. An experience for which there is no apparent cause. Most part of us believe our world is based on a...
There is a plethora of metaphors that warn us about the impact of the words we speak. One that comes to mind is words are like toothpaste. Once you squeeze toothpaste out of the tube, you can’t put it back. And God said through the Prophet Isaiah that God’s Word never...