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When You’re Too Tired to Run – Wait on the Lord
This passage from Isaiah 40 has always been a favorite of mine. It’s on the cover of my Bible and on my business card. It communicates so much it just a few words. “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.…
Read MoreHow’s Your Training Going?
Physical fitness is something that we all need to pay attention to – God created us with physical bodies that need proper nutrition, rest, exercise, and care. important as physical training is, there’s another kind of training that’s even more important, even more vital, to our well-being. [powerpress] Video and full text available on our…
Read MoreFamily Fun – It Is Possible
Why is having “fun” together so important to families? Family fun is an important part of building a strong family identity. When families have fun together, it builds a bond that can last a life time. Relationship with each other become stronger when we are having fun together. [powerpress] Video and full text available on…
Read MoreA Day at the Beach
I wonder how often we think about Jesus and the disciples doing something as familiar to us as enjoying a beach, grilling fish and eating and talking together. Notice who goes on this fishing trip in John 21: Simon Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, the sons of Zebedee, and two others. All of these men made strong…
Read MoreCongregational Prayer 7/10 A Lament
This is a time to mourn. The tragic loss of five lives in Dallas Thursday night weighs heavy on our hearts. We lament that a peaceful gathering in Dallas at which protestors and police officers were posing together for photographs was shattered by deadly violence. No amount of fear, hurt or anger can ever justify…
Read MoreLife Is A Ball Game
Hall of Fame manager, Leo Durocher, said, “Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.” Durocher was known as Leo the Lip for his frank and outspoken speech, but he was correct that the game of baseball like church is deeper, more textured, and has a lot more going on than initially meets the eye.…
Read MoreFlags, Food, and Faith
Being careful about what kind of speech we saturate our mind and heart in is important to our soul. My prayer is what Paul says in Ephesians 4:29-31, “Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give…
Read MoreLove: God’s Medicine
“So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13 The Rev. Dr. Victor Scalise’s message. [powerpress] Video available on our Messages page.
Read MoreBeing a Credible Witness
It’s hard to imagine many things worse than living your life and believing with all your heart that when you die you’ll go to heaven only to find out when the time comes that rather than enjoying eternal life in God’s beautiful kingdom you’re being sent away into eternal punishment. That’s what happens to some…
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