2021 Easter Devotion: Rivers of Life

2021 Easter Devotion: Rivers of Life

2021 Easter Devotion: Rivers of Life “When my daughter Katie was 11 we took a trip together to the southern edge of the Sahara. While we were in the city of Niamey, the temperature soared to 126◦F. We saw almost no grass. Niamey is the most parched city we had ever...
God With Us

God With Us

God With Us God With Us “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel, which means ‘God with us’.” Matthew 1:23   *** My five year old son, Eli, went into a cave for the first time. As we descended into the cold, dark, damp cave...
Bear One Another’s Burdens

Bear One Another’s Burdens

Bear One Another's Burdens Bear One Another's Burdens And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have the opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of...
Esprit de Corps

Esprit de Corps

Esprit de Corps Esprit de Corps “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one — I in them and you in me— so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have...
We Will Rise

We Will Rise

We Will Rise  We Will Rise “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1983, I was a teenager working as a busboy in a seafood...