"When the days drew near for Him to be taken up, He set His face to go to Jerusalem" (Luke 9:51) Jerusalem meant certain death for Jesus – a very painful…
“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 And a second is…
“We didn’t know that she was doing this and had that much money!”….a family revealed when it was uncovered that their mother who was murdered had millions of dollar and…
Let’s assume we had 50 members 60 years ago, and now 500, inclusive of active, non-active, associate members and those who had left us. We can have two growth models:…
Some crave to be leaders – for power, money and prestige. Some have power thrust upon them. Some rise to the occasion; and some are invited by a community or…
Are leaders born or trained? Moses was most likely born to lead. He was adopted as a prince; fled and became a lowly shepherd in his father-in-law’s estate and later…
Some pictures remain indelibly embedded in our mind. When I was a young teenager I saw a reprint of Norman Rockwell’s 1951 painting “Saying Grace” in the now defunct Asia…
One of our church’s core values is that we value the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. We humbly acknowledge that without the Holy Spirit’s empowerment, nothing of value to God’s…