Coronavirus Close to Home

The impact of the coronavirus struck home for me at the end of February when my sister-in-law Charlene found out she had contracted COVID-19. She is a New Zealander in her 50s, temporarily teaching in an international school in Indonesia. Charlene was already under...

Chronological Bible Reading Plan

Along with the sermon series “Casket Empty”, we are reading through the entire Bible as a church. Sign up for the plan through the YouVersion Bible app or download it as a printable PDF. This guide has been compiled according to recent historical research, taking into...

How Do You Define Church?

A cruel experiment was supposedly done in the 13th century by King Frederick II of Sicily. In his fascination to learn the original language spoken by Adam and Eve, he gave a group of babies to the care of nurses. The nurses were given very strict instructions: they...

A New Year and a New Season

There’s something so wonderful about the feeling of NEW. Few things on Earth beat a pair of new socks, that new car smell, a new haircut, or new Play Doh (for the parents and children out there). Right now, I’m enjoying that “new year feeling”....

Wait and See

I was raised in a different kind of family. I am African-American, as are my mother and father. But I was raised by my stepfather, who is Caucasian. I believe that having a white stepfather had a great influence on how I grew up. As a family, we traveled the United...