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God. We started our time together today telling each other “how good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!” It may be good. But it is often hard. We struggle with praises when we are unsure where the money is coming from for this bill. We struggle […]

I have been reading about Hudson Taylor, a British missionary to China in the 1800s. There are so many amazing stories during his life about how God worked in answer to prayer. Most of them revolve around his prayers, but this significant story is about the prayers of his mom and sister. At age 15, […]

More notes from a chapel message from the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. For the first part, see “People are real.” +++ Here’s the next principle that Paul offers: Knowledge puffs up while love builds up. Paul’s not talking about a debate between truth and love. He’s saying that sometimes we think we know more […]

From Rich Dixon: We’ve accumulated thousands of cycling pictures over the years. None has been more memorable than this one. It was taken on the final day of the 1500-mile ride on the outskirts of New Orleans. The white car in the distance marks the finish line of our epic journey. You can imagine my […]

Some notes from a chapel message from the fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. +++ In a letter we know as 1 Corinthians, Paul seems to be addressing several issues, topics, and questions that he’s heard that they were struggling with. As he addresses each of the questions, he does it by coming back to their […]