Newsletter
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A Vision for the New Year
The following article is written for Bethel, but it has applications for other congregations. Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18 [KJV] Do you remember back at the beginning of 2020? Churches and leadership gurus were very excited to be able to talk about 2020 as the year of vision and clarity…
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Growing Connections Through Confession
The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart … if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. ~ Romans 10:8-9 “Confession” for some of us may conjure images of a person sitting in…
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Growing Connections by Getting Outside of Ourselves
After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. ~ Luke 10:1 Moms have some great wisdom. When I was in middle and high school, I struggled through the insecurities that many of us experienced in our…
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Growing Connections with God
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength ~ Mark 12:30 I began my November article asking: “How are the connections in your life?” I asked because our theme for this year is “Growing Connections.” And, really,…
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Are you living life on autopilot, or taking the bull by the horns?
But be doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. ~ James 1:22 We all do it. We establish routines that give structure and order to our lives. I’m guessing all of us have morning and evening routines, and probably certain days of the week for shopping for groceries or paying bills.…
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Growing Connections: Building Relationships with God and Neighbor
“Which commandment is the first of all?” Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your…
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Community: Our Need to Connect with One Another
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:12-13 Humans…
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