Dear Friends, Thanks for the outpouring of responses to messages of the last two weeks regarding our calling to prayer over partisan politics and prayer of gratitude for reassurance in the spring knowing the winter storms will return again. Both seem to strike a chord with a lot of you. I hope this message does […]
Michael Sutherlin
A Word of Grace – May 23, 2017
Dear Friends, This week’s message arises out of a prayer I wrote for a suffering friend. It speaks to seasons of the soul experienced by all of us at one time or another. . . . Flying to Sacramento at dawn, I watch the sun stretch out over the Golden State from my window seat. […]
A Word of Grace – May 19, 2017
Dear Friends, I wrote many drafts of this message and I am sending it out late because I shudder to enter the political madness that has seized and roils our country. But I became an attorney to advocate for religious liberty and I am saddened to see that cause sullied by partisan politics. Some of […]
A Word of Grace – May 8, 2017
Dear Friends, When they were drawing up the Russian-Finnish border, a farmer had to decide if he wanted to be in Finland, but he did not want to offend the Russian officials. They came to him and wanted to know why he wanted to be in Finland. The farmer replied, “It has always been my […]
A Word of Grace – May 1, 2017
Dear Friends, If any of you lacks wisdom, ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it shall be given to you. But ask in faith, never doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind; for the doubter, being double minded […]