Lessons from Paul in Prison The recent “lockdown” of our normal lives continues to cause inconvenience, financial hardship, and disappointment to everyone.  Markets imploding, plans cancelled, fear of...  Read More

'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment gre...  Read More

I don’t know why it continues to amaze me but it does.  I can read the same scripture again and again and then one day I see something there that I never have before. Hebrews 4:12 says it well.  “For ...  Read More

Our granddaughter has been dealing with an unexplained illness.  She’s had to wait, it seems, too long to get into the physicians that can maybe tell her what’s going on.   Many of you know what that ...  Read More

It was just a box sitting on the table filled with odds and ends of stuff haphazardly thrown in.  It had been sitting like that for some time because of the accumulation of dust and dirt along with th...  Read More

Closer Than CloseMark Batterson Weekly DevotionalJanuary 13, 2020Genesis 1:1-2 – “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the sur...  Read More

Last Christmas I was shopping, trying to get my list done in one day. Over the intercom of the store I was currently in came a voice letting us all know that the store had Christmas stamps and we didn...  Read More

We have the opportunity to see people at their best and at their worst when we serve in Valley Mission Food Pantry each week. I tell folks all the time that it's my second favorite day of the week, ne...  Read More

Narrow MindedHave you ever been called narrow minded? I haven’t for awhile, maybe because I hang out with like-minded people. But it has happened and I have immediately become defensive. All sorts of ...  Read More

Over the past several weeks we've been learning through the Sunday messages and group study of Experiencing God about joining God in His work, listening when He speaks, dealing with a crisis of belief...  Read More

Jesus came to serve, not to be served. Somehow, the 'church' in America has lost sight of that and has sat back and watched the smaller group of volunteers serve the larger group of consumers. No wher...  Read More