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Today I spoke on the topic of friendship at a one-day retreat, and it prompted me to think of the friendship we are invited to share with God.  It also got me thinking about prayer, the way we communicate with our God.

Friendship with anyone requires a couple…

“You know, Christine, I have heard people comment that there is an awful lot of talk about Jesus in the church today, and not so much teaching about God the Father.  Could you comment on that?” my dear friend Christa asked, catching me off guard at Bible study last week.  …

Faith made sight.  John 4:46-53                                                              

This appears to be a matter-of-fact recounting of ho-hum storytelling, but…

What do YOU notice about this exchange? John 4.1-42

When Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John (though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were), He left Judea and went again to Galilee. He…

Humility is a beautiful thing when we see it . . . especially when it would be the natural thing to react defensively.  Here again we see that John the Baptist never lost sight of his mission – he was here to point the way to Jesus, to make him great.  It was his purpose for being, all along the way, even when…

My acquaintance with Nicodemus goes back to when I was probably about four years old, when a Sunday School teacher taught by moving paper figures around on a flannel-graph board—two men, both Jewish, one old and gray, both with beards.  And that is just about how much I took it into my heart—paper on a flat board.  It was an important lesson—for…

So an old Jewish teacher goes to find the one they call Jesus . . . the one people are talking about around town . . . recently turned water into wine . . . captivating folks with his words.  Nicodemus goes at night, because he would probably be stripped of his high-powered position in the Sanhedrin if he was seen in the company of this rabbi from…

Perspective --from a glimpse in the crowd . . .

We looked at Jesus’ final night with his disciples-

How he pleaded with the Father to…

Peter’s Message for Us.  Acts 2.14-41

Peter, the impetuous disciple of Christ—the one who denied him three times—at Jesus’ most desperate hour, preached the sermon of a lifetime, and 3000 people came to know Jesus in one day.  Here is what he…

Good Morning.  

Picture the 120 gathered together, and filled with the Spirit for the first time in history.  They begin to speak in unknown languages--unknown to them, but not to the Jewish pilgrims who had traveled to Jerusalem to observe Pentecost.  A crowd gathers and hears the good news…

‘Round me on the airplane, some passengers are reading, and many are sleeping, as we wing our way over Greenland, bound for home.   While my body is exhausted, my head and heart are full of the sights, sounds, and experiences of the last days.  Hmmm, how to make sense of a holiday of short duration but of huge personal proportions…  Eight days ago, I flew with my family from Southern…

What was meant by 'speaking in tongues' in Acts chapter Two.

What strikes me most about Paris is the historic nature of it … the age of the buildings, streets, and statuary—the exquisite detail and beauty.  ‘The building that has taken my breath…

The Holy Spirit and Languages.  This Morning Briefing is a two-parter.

Part One.

We made our way across London via the Underground to see…

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