Accentuate the Positive: A Message for Moms
Susan Hines-Brigger
May 3, 2021
The world is in need of positivity and grace. As a mother, let it begin with me.
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A Life Adrift
Susan Hines-Brigger
May 3, 2021
This month, millions of people in the United States will mark May 9 by celebrating Mother’s Day. According to reports, last year people spent a record $25 billion—yes, billion—on Mother’s Day. I, however, won’t be one of them. I haven’t been since 2013, when my mom died.
Sharing the Word for May 3, 2021 – Fifth Week of Easter – Year 1
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
May 3, 2021
We don’t have many details about the individual apostles’ lives, but we do know that each of them experienced and proclaimed the Lord really dead, really risen.
Good Grief
Carol Ann Morrow
May 2, 2021
Sadness, sorrow, tears, loss: For some of us they make all too frequent appearances. Speak to someone you love of a loss or an experience that burdens you.
Worried for Your Family?
Maureen O'Brien
May 1, 2021
In my worry about family members, I sometimes forget that there is always hope—in God. Are there moments you feel you must fix things, forgetting that God is there?
Sharing the Word for May 1, 2021
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
May 1, 2021
Paul and Barnabas are not successful with the Jews at Antioch in Pisidia. God does not always work in ways we expect. But he does always brings about his own kind of success.
Order from Chaos
Diane M. Houdek
April 29, 2021
Dreaded chores or cherished hobbies have a centering power that can bring us closer to God.
Sharing the Word for April 29, 2021
Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk
April 29, 2021
Paul’s first major address is about God’s relationship with the Israelites: their liberation from Egypt, their capture of the Promised Land, their experience with judges and kings. Finally God sent them a Savior, Jesus.
Is Your Work a Vocation?
Ragan Sutterfield
April 28, 2021
It doesn’t take much looking in our economy to see that in fact there is a great deal of work that doesn’t pray, work that disconnects us from our sources of life rather than moves us toward wholeness. For work to pray, it must have a sense of vocation attached to it—we must feel some calling toward that work and the wholeness of which it is a part, that there is something holy in good work. Vocation is a calling and prayer is a call and response, deep calling to deep. For work to pray, to be vocation, it must be brought into a larger conversation.
The Importance of Being Happy
Susan Hines-Brigger
April 28, 2021
God wants us to be joyful, but sometimes life makes that hard. Here are some tips.
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