Weekly Lay Devotion 4-28-21
2 Corinithians 9 6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7Each man should give what he has decided in
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Weekly Lay Devotion 4-21-21
We’ve been talking about holding onto hope for over a year now during this pandemic, and for some of us, we’ve been grasping at a thin thread of hope for
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Weekly Lay Devotion 4-14-21
“Lord, raise up in me a holy passion.” I have sincerely prayed some form of this prayer in two different seasons of my life. The first time was after being
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Weekly Lay Devotion 4-8-21
Somehow the word justice has become a controversial word among Christians, as debate rages over whether social justice is part of the gospel. To understand what role justice should have
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Weekly Lay Devotion 3-31-21
This week's lay devotion was written by Joyce Dantzler: Early spring in yards across the country, parents, grandparents, and guardians get busy hiding Easter eggs. Eggs that have been beautifully
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Weekly Lay Devotion 3-24-21
Philippians 2:1-11 During Lent I have been reading “Lent in Plain Sight” by Jill Duffield. One of the recent devotions was based on these verses where in verse 5 we
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Weekly Lay Devotion 3-10-21
Do you ever wonder about all the times God has saved you from something? I’m not talking about those situations when you felt your back was up against a wall
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Weekly Lay Devotion 3-3-21
Do you feel the nearness of Christ? In Paul’s letter to the Philippians, he tells them, “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness
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Weekly Lay Devotion 2-24-21
“We are unable to run from God without also running into God.” Steve Harper, in his book, “Five Marks of a Methodist”, wrote this sentence as a way of explaining
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Weekly Lay Devotion 2-17-21
The story of the two pockets is one I am thinking about on this Ash Wednesday. It is attributed to Rabbi Simcha Bunim, and goes something like this: "Everyone must
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