By Ruth Wood It seems that every year at Christmas my mother laments, “What can I give you? You have everything.” She loves to give and feels sad that I have no pressing material needs. In her mind, how can…
What Can I Give You?
Category: Confession
And the Light Shines
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was…
With Thanksgiving!
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving! See to it that there is…
Songs of Deliverance
Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit. When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my…
Questioning Authority
By Ann O’Malley I sit in church listening to the sermon. I’ve been a committed Christian for more than fifty years, so most of what the pastor says is familiar. But I have an active mind. I hear his words,…