Category: All About Life

  • Making Juneteenth a Day of Prayer and Fasting – Part 2, Prayer Guide and Plan

    Wrote a post yesterday encouraging us to know a little bit about Juneteenth and also asking us to consider prayer and fasting this Friday for justice and racial reconciliation to honor that day.   This post is to give us a couple ways we can enter into prayer for these issues.  I also want to remind…

  • Making Juneteenth a Day of Prayer and Fasting – Part 1, a Call to Prayer

    My guess is that many who read this have never heard of Juneteenth, or even if you have heard of it, may not know the meaning.  In my opinion, this day should be a holiday, remembered and honored by all of us.  It is a day that is solemnly remembered by the majority of our…

  • WHEN EQUALITY ISN’T – Guest post by Leslie Holdegraver

    I saw this blog post from Leslie Holdegraver and wanted to share it in light of the events going on in our nation.  In a culture of outrage where we are quick to take up an opinion, let me encourage all of us to listen and have compassion toward our brown and black skinned neighbors…

  • Leaning in to the Moment – Don’t Waste Your Quarantine

    I saw an article recently that hit me pretty hard.  Apparently, in China, the divorce rate has spiked in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.  “Divorce rates in the country (China) have risen significantly  because ‘couples are spending too much time together at home during self-isolation.”   We would be foolish to think the same…

  • Coronavirus, Plagues, and our Prayers

    The other day I was in a meeting with the Superintendent of the Rockwood School District, and like every other conversation right now, the Coronavirus was a key topic.  He said that we are dealing with two issues.  The first is the science and medicine about the disease.  Like them, we as a church need…