According to plan

Scripture Reading: 1 John 5:6-12 It wasn’t part of the plan… not at all… but I’m coaching basketball again this year. It happened so subtly too. I went to help with the tryouts, no problem. I told the head coach I’d be able to help out...

Keeping Commandments

Scripture Reading: 1 John 5:1-5 Remember when you had kids in the home? Or maybe you remember growing up yourself and your parents would always nag you about things. “Go wash your hands.” “Come in for dinner.” “Clean your room.” “Go have a bath.” (“But I just had one...

It’s All About Love

Scripture: 1 John 4:7-21 Love, exciting and new Come Aboard. We’re expecting you. And Love, life’s sweetest reward. Let it flow, it floats back to you. Love Boat soon will be making another run...

Testing and overcoming

Scripture: 1 John 4:1-6 “It’s too good to be true!” We’ve all heard this phrase before right? We’ve probably even said it a few times ourselves. Usually when we’re talking about something being too good to be true, we’re hearing about a...

greater than our hearts

Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:11-24 The past few weeks, I don’t know about you, but I can’t watch the news right now. It’s hard on the heart to see everything that’s been happening in the world, and in particular the United States. First there...

Being Renewed

Scripture: 1 John 2:29-3:10 On Wednesday, Craig, Shirley, Grace, Bev and myself drove to New Glasgow for lunch. Seems to be a long way to go just for lunch. What we really went for was to hear more about this Church Renewal journey we’ve begun here at Carman. We...