For many around the world, a disaster in another country grabs our attention as long as media covers it. We are moved to pray, often to give, and sometimes even to send a relief team. Thank you, Lord, for your Church worldwide that has done all this and helped meet the enormous needs before us!... Continue Reading →
No Hands, No Feet but Yours
Christmas Day, and now Christmas season, have come and gone. In this blog, in our podcast, and hopefully in your local church, you have focused on the Incarnation: God with us. He came to bring joy and hope! The God of the entire universe has taken on flesh and “borne our griefs, and carried our... Continue Reading →
Incarnation – Moving into the Neighborhood
Yesterday (December 14), the Worthless Servants podcast published a new episode touching on an appropriately Christmas topic: the Incarnation. When we speak of the Incarnation, we are referring to God becoming man. This is the essence of Advent and of Christmas; these are the moments in the Christian calendar when we celebrate that God sent... Continue Reading →
A Thousand Questions
The following video was published several years ago but still communicates powerfully to our reality. Have you ever had a time when you felt like God was not present? Have you ever questioned if there is hope for our hurting and desperate human race? May your passion be like that of Sharon Irving who performs... Continue Reading →
Anna Akhmatova
"The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teach myself to live again." — Anna Akhmatova By Scott Armstrong June 23... Continue Reading →
Compassion for the Lost
Rev. Ken Childress Isaiah chapter 6, verse 8: "I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, here am I! Send me." Is it possible, after we have been baptized with the Holy Spirit, to be satisfied with what we see? What made... Continue Reading →