Month: March 2024

Bunnies and Eggs?

Posted: March 28, 2024

Why does Easter move around on our calendar? Valentine’s Day is always February 14th. Mother’s Day is the 2nd Sunday of May and Father’s Day is the 3rd Sunday of June. July 4th is celebrated on July 4th! (Duh!) Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November; Christmas is the 25th of December. New Year’s Day

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Grace to You All

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: March 21, 2024

I think Paul’s favorite word/topic was grace. He uses it countless times in his writing. As a matter of fact, did you know that he opens and closes every single letter with some variation of “Grace to you”?1 Really! Go ahead! Check it out. I’ll wait. 🧐. . . 🤔. . . 😬 . .

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Praying 2.0

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: March 14, 2024

I am not satisfied with my prayer life. But who is? Well, maybe you are; I don’t know. But I am not. I am convinced that we pray mostly out of selfish desires. We pray for things to happen—things we believe we need, things that we believe God should want for us! And sometimes we

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Forgiven and Forgiving

By Deborah Belew McDermet

Posted: March 7, 2024

John writes about “a woman who had been caught in adultery.”1 The scribes and Pharisees brought her to Jesus as he was teaching in the temple. Obviously, they did this to shame her and to trap Jesus into contradicting himself. “And placing her in the midst they said to him, ‘Teacher, this woman has been

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