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This week is National Volunteer Week.  Volunteering is a wonderful way to serve your community and make a difference in the lives of those around you.  Jesus did a lot of volunteering, but He called it ministry.  Have you ever tried it?  It’s quite rewarding and just makes you feel good. Many local organizations and social…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year; tax time.  This is when ‘we the people’ get to give a portion of our hard earned money to the government.  Then they will spend it on all sorts of stuff.  Not all this stuff is a wise use of Our money.  I know we need money…

Many churches think it is wrong to dance at all, especially in church.  Our church welcomes the freedom to worship in dance.  We have an adult team and a children’s team.  On Easter Sunday the ladies group performed a beautiful dance for us all to enjoy.  They choose a song and then the dance team…

I am a flower nut.  One of my favorite things in the springtime is to look at God’s beautiful creation through His gift of flowers.  There will probably be more flowers than words in this blog, because there is nothing I can say to add to their beauty. I am always amazed at the intricate…

With so many Easter baskets full of candy, it will be hard to not to over do the sugar high that comes along with marshmallow eggs and chocolate bunnies.  If you don’t like sweets, you are truly blessed because most of us struggle to do it in moderation.  My husband can eat a whole bag of…

Easter, much like Christmas was introduced as a way for Christians to celebrate and enjoy holiday festivities at the same time the pagans were.  Because there is no way of finding the actual dates of things like the birth of Jesus and the death and resurrection of Jesus, church leaders chose days that were near…

It never ceases to amaze me how all the drabness of Winter turns into beautiful new life in the  Spring.  All the old deadness and ugliness suddenly changes with the hope of warm weather.  These weeping cherry trees show the vast difference between the seasons. During the winter they look dead and cold, and covered…

With Easter just around the corner, many people are questioning just what they do believe.  Does it really matter, as long as we believe something and hold to that belief?  There are millions of churches around the world.  There are hundreds of different denominations.  In America we have everything from little home groups of five…

The Scripture tells us in Matthew 25:35-40 that if we have given food or drink to a stranger, it is the same as if we have given it to Jesus.  Jesus had a real compassion for the poor of His day; and He still does.  We can choose to concern ourselves with ourselves or we…

Many of the people who come to our food giveaways feel like they are the only one in that situation.  They tend to believe that Christians have wonderful, stress free lives and don’t have the same difficulties as the rest of the world.  We have all kinds of volunteers for each give away and our…
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