Dear Friends, Last week’s message was about Jesus’ healing of the woman with the chronic hemorrhage in Luke 8:42-48. It is a dramatic story about faith and truth-telling. It is also a story within the story of Jesus’ healing of the young daughter of the synagogue leader Jairus told in Luke 8:40-56. This week’s message
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A Word of Grace – July 11, 2017
Dear Friends, And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse. She had heard about
A Word of Grace – July 5, 2017
Dear Friends, Praying with my parents and siblings is one of my earliest memories. Prayer and music were the foundation of my family?s spiritual life. Dad and Mom prayed and read the Bible because they wanted to know what God thought about our everyday, walking-around lives. They believed with confidence that God created us, saved
A Word of Grace – June 27, 2017
Dear Friends, I am sorry that there was no message for June 19, 2017, because of the press of an engagement that did not permit me time to write. . . . Have you ever set a great goal, assembled an excellent team to accomplish it, set out on the initiative, only to find people
A Word of Grace – June 13, 2017
Dear Friends, I had a conversation this week with a pregnant friend about the night feeding of infants. It can be a struggle for tired parents, but it can also be a unique pathway to knowing God’s love as I describe in this message. I wrote it nearly thirty years ago after experiencing the intimacy