Rend Your Hearts

Rend Your Hearts

September 6 “Rend Your Heart” Joel About 45 miles from my hometown is the city of Enterprise, Alabama. Downtown on the city square, there is a monument to an insect, the boll weevil. The monument credits the boll weevil with bringing economic diversification to the...

Rescuing Us From Unfaithfulness

August 30, 2020 Rescuing Us from Unfaithfulness – The Book of Hosea With Hosea’s book, we enter the section of the Hebrew Bible called the Minor Prophets. These books are not less in importance, but they tend to be smaller in length.  There are twelve of these...
Surrender Control to God (Daniel)

Surrender Control to God (Daniel)

Surrendering Control to God August 23, 2020 One of the greatest prayers ever penned is by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. It’s become known as the Serenity Prayer. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can,...
Coming Alongside Others

Coming Alongside Others

August 16, 2020 Ezekiel – Coming Alongside Others A child about five anxiously watches her father as he takes the training wheels off her bicycle.  She fears skinned knees and the thoughts of failure. “What if I can’t ride it?” she thinks to...
Moving from Lament to Hope

Moving from Lament to Hope

Moving From Lament to Hope August 9, 2020 In our journey through the Bible, we have come to the book of Lamentations.   In the word “Lamentations,” you can hear the root word, “Lament.”   Some people think a lament is a complaint, and...