Dec 23, 2020 | Staff Blog
The Lord Has ComeA Reflection on Christ’s birthDr. Hulitt Gloer During this Advent season, our candles have served to remind us that in Jesus, our Emmanuel, God is with us in our sin, in our brokenness and pain, in our hope, and in our waiting. We have been preparing...
Dec 20, 2020 | Staff Blog
Love Does ThatA Reflection on LoveSuzanne Cain All day long a little burro labors, sometimeswith heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worriesabout things that bother onlyburros. And worries, as we know, can be more exhaustingthan physical labor. Once in a...
Dec 20, 2020 | Staff Blog
The Weakness… and the Strength…of LoveA Reflection on Luke 2:15-20Preston Clegg Have you ever noticed how love can make you feel weak? It’s built into the very vocabulary of love. “She makes me weak in the knees,” the teenage boy says, talking...
Dec 14, 2020 | Staff Blog
A Pachydermal PuzzleAn Advent ReflectionChristine Harris It’s December of 2020. Need I say more? Probably not, but I feel compelled to write about yet another anomaly anyway. Last weekend I dutifully hauled into the house some...
Dec 14, 2020 | Staff Blog
Advent of JoyReflecting on Luke 2:1-21Kay Hardin One morning I stepped outside to call Scrappy Tabby (my cat who adopted me), and I was moved by the splendor and beauty of the day. I longed to take my 1.5 mile walk in my Park Hill neighborhood. But my disciplined self...
Dec 14, 2020 | Staff Blog
The Winter is ColdA Reflection on JoyPreston Clegg The winter is cold, is cold.All’s spent in keeping warm.Has joy been frozen, too?I blow upon my handsStiff from the biting wind.My heart beats slow, beats slow.What has become of joy? If joy’s gone from my heartThen...
