Schoolchildren in the city of Orange, where I live, have three weeks off this holiday season, and I’m feeling the need for a break too. Look for the next full prayer blog on January 8, 2019. Over these next few weeks, remember to pray for those who are grieving or lonely or reeling...
Genesis 32:1-21Hope of Reconciliation The frame around Pastor Shannon’s sermon was the question, Who makes it hard for you to go home for Christmas? … whether you define home in terms of your natural family or your church family. What relationship in your life is fractured? It...
Genesis 31:17-55 In these Jacob-chapters of Genesis, we have repeatedly seen Jacob assume that the blessings in his life – the wives and children, the wealth in flocks and herds, the protection from Laban – were the results of his own decisions and actions. In truth, God was the...