Giving Thanks in a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

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Giving Thanks in a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

November 22, 2020 • Graeme Sellers

God does not propose gratitude as an ethical concept to ponder and study and value. Admiring the principle is no substitute for doing it. Gratitude is a choice. It doesn’t just come upon us when Holy Spirit is the mood to bring it. No. We choose it deliberately and consciously. And the more deliberately and regularly we choose it the more it reproduces itself in us.

Waiting Like Simeon

December 27, 2020 • David Hammerslag

Almost everyone hates waiting, even when the thing we are waiting for will be well worth the wait. Waiting on God can be some of the hardest waiting there is. We can learn how to shift our perspective while waiting by studying the example of Simeon and Anna, who we meet in Luke chapter 2. They are examples of waiting with anticipation that leads to attentiveness and action.

Christmas Eve at Wonderful Mercy

December 24, 2020

A beautiful service of carols, Christmas scriptures, story reading, and celebration of the birth of Jesus.

Mary, God's Favor, & the Impossible

December 20, 2020 • Graeme Sellers

In this year, 2020, a year in which so much has gone sideways, how many of us are holding on to personal word from God that looks increasingly as impossible as the one Gabriel gave to Mary? And how many need the same assurance, “For no word from God will ever fail.”?