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Speak to Me View in browser September 2, 2023 Speak to Me Kenneth Samuel But Moses pleaded with the Lord, “O Lord, I’m not very good with words. I never have been, and I’m not now, even though you have spoken to me. I get tongue-tied, and my words get tangled.” -Exodus 4:10 (NLT) In … Read more

132 Steps to a Better Sermon View in browser September 1, 2023 132 Steps to a Better Sermon Vince Amlin And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. – 1 Corinthians … Read more

The Sandwich Generation View in browser August 31, 2023 The Sandwich Generation Rachel Hackenberg These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. … Then Joseph died, and all his … Read more

Praying all the Time View in browser August 30, 2023 Praying all the Time Ann Kansfield Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints. – Ephesians 6:18 (NRSV) My friend and fellow UCC pastor Rev. Micah Bucey … Read more

Products and Sacrifices View in browser August 29, 2023 Products and Sacrifices Quinn Caldwell “Where are their gods … who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libations?” – Deuteronomy 32:37-38 (NRSVUE) They say that if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. Then again, they say … Read more

Daily Devotional for Small Group Discussion: Froggy Faith View in browser August 28, 2023 Froggy Faith Phiwa Langeni Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” – John 6:35 (CEB) The backyard pond I inherited is the best … Read more

First Breathe. Then Push. View in browser August 27, 2023 First Breathe. Then Push. Jennifer Ruth Lynn Garrison The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is … Read more

Incompatible View in browser August 26, 2023 Incompatible Kenneth Samuel The feet and toes you saw were a combination of iron and baked clay … while some parts of it will be as strong as iron, other parts will be as weak as clay … They will not hold together, just as iron and clay … Read more

Sighs View in browser August 25, 2023 Sighs Molly Baskette Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words. – Romans 8:26 (NRSVUE) Covid finally caught me for the first time, more than three … Read more

Be Subject View in browser August 24, 2023 Be Subject Martha Spong Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. – Ephesians 5:21 (NRSV) When I was a young bride, the first time around, we read what the never-married apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians about husbands and wives, and how they were … Read more