writing

Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 36:1-8, 21-23, 27-28; 31:31-34 It’s not very often we read scripture out of order. We’re looking at the book of Jeremiah this week, and we started near the end of the book in chapter 36, then backtracked to chapter 31....

awe

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8 Have you been somewhere we’re you’ve felt just a complete sense of awe? Maybe on an ocean beach, or on the top of a mountain? Maybe you felt it with our choir singing last Sunday evening! When I think about times when I’ve...

Deserved

Scripture: Jonah 1:1-17; 3:1-10; 4:1-11 We’ve all had a point in our lives where we’ve looked at someone, or some situation, or some event, and we’ve said, “They got what they deserved.” We’ve all said it right? Someone does harm to someone...

Promised forever

Scripture: 2 Samuel 7:1-17 This past week I had a couple of small, private funerals. All that were in attendance were family and a few close friends. They were nice, quiet times where the family just wanted to have something so they could say good bye to their loved...

faithfulness and trust

Scripture: 1 Samuel 1:9-11,19-20; 2:1-10 What an interesting reading this morning from the book of 1 Samuel. Some of us may remember parts of the story of Samuel as he was called by God as a young man. We like to remember how God called out to him in the dark of...