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It is always the transformation of the smallest part that leads to the transformation of the whole. 
We groan and cry out in this painful life experience together. 
The cold, hard fact is that there are prayers that God does not answer.
During this time, will we begin to walk together to discover opportunities to learn and be transformed or will we be consumed by despair and antipathy?
Joy is an ever-present reality to which we open wide our souls to receive, but it is also a remembering and a longing.
Living constantly in the burden and pain of our suffering can either become an end destination or a passageway for each of us.
The great blessing of faith I received from my father was greater than the very foundations of the earth.
God is not giving up on the creation that was called “good” from the very beginning.
Not only can I not kill my enemy or have someone do it on my behalf or with my support, I can not even hate my enemy, or avenge the wrong he has done to me.
When a loved-one in your life passes unexpectedly, everything else in the world seems to completely stop and to have very little significance.
Every single time we take the humble and submissive way of Christ, it may look like defeat for you as an individual.
In our global neighborhood and in the middle of the street in which we live lies a poor brother who has been in need of help for quite sometime. And now needs our help more than ever.
The truth of the matter is that there is nothing wrong with recognizing the fact that there are times when God does not answer prayer the way that I would like. And sometimes that means the unanswered prayer will make my life hard…sometimes unbearable…but it doesn’t mean that God is not there suffering with me or that God has turned against me and does not love me.
The Christian is confronted by the paradox of the Holy Scriptures when told to consider it pure joy when faced with all kinds of trials.
Through worship, the Spirit of God breaks out into the world in prayer, in praise, in service putting broken pieces back together.