Dec 22, 2021 | Staff Blog
by Brittany Stillwell One of my favorite aspects of the Christmas and Advent season is using my grandmother’s Christmas dishes. She died when I was 8, so a lot of what I know about her is fragments of memories cobbled together with family stories and lore. There is a...
Dec 21, 2021 | Staff Blog
by Kay Hardin “There is wonderful joy ahead, even though we must endure many trials for a little while….We love Jesus even though we have never seen him. Though we do not see him now, we trust him; and we rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible...
Dec 20, 2021 | Staff Blog
by Kay Moore In 2009 Herb and I were going through a really tough time with our business. We had a customer who was a Pentecostal preacher. He called himself a Bapticost. He was joking.He called us EVERY DAY and prayed with us and many times he spoke in tongues. He...
Dec 20, 2021 | Staff Blog
by Logan BostI promise this post is about joy – my own and in general – please bear with me. I read somewhere recently – I think it was originally a twitter post, which I saw on Facebook, and am not able to appropriately cite – that what older generations need to...
Dec 16, 2021 | Staff Blog
by Bob Klutts I have been studying Genesis. Chapter 26 is about Isaac, his flaws, failures, fear and faithlessness. It made me think of my own. No joy there! But it also reminds him that God will be with him in the future, v3, that God is with him now, v24 and that...
Dec 15, 2021 | Staff Blog
by Leatrice Klutts I find happiness depends on external things and joy comes from deep in the core of my being and is always there, but may become dim if not attended to. I try everyday to pinpoint a source of joy and I put it in my journal for my journey with...
