Jim Croegaert has a song, “Waiting,” on his CD, Heaven Knows. I listened to it on my thousand mile drive to Colorado earlier this week and it’s running through my mind this morning, waiting for a grandbaby. In a personal prophecy a few years ago, a gentle man spoke God’s thoughts: “You’ve felt like there’s …
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Heavy Fellowship
“Take up your cross and follow me,” Jesus says. Three of the four gospel writers record this statement, Matthew twice. (Mark 8:34, Luke 9:23, Matthew 10:38 and 16:24) What does he mean? Growing up on the farm fifty years ago, a neighbor referred to her husband as her “cross to bear.” He didn’t go to …
Always Emmanuel
“Do this in remembrance of me,” Jesus said as he broke the bread and poured the wine at the last passover with his disciples before his crucifixion. Some churches remember him in communion every Sunday, some less often, but regularly. Some of us do communion ourselves, spouse with spouse. Others believe the elements must be …