Article: Habits of Unhappy People

Who are you listening to? What are the voices in your life that are influencing you?  Family? Friends? 24 hour “news” channels? Politicians? Does Jesus even make the list? My guess is yes. But, to what extent? There are voices all around telling us: what to believe, what to hate and what to fear. Often…

We are just a few days from the beginning of Holy Week. We will remember:  Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem (he is from Nazareth), how Jesus disrupted the business of the Temple (called the cleansing but he didn’t do any cleaning) how Jesus taught daily in the Temple courts (outside the Temple building)  Jesus celebrating Passover…

    I was thinking about this story earlier today and the implications it has for us as worshippers of Christ… I know, I know, I think about weird stuff a lot. One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain-fields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. The…

Let us go back in time. All the way back to 900BC. Life was different back then… very different. At that moment in Israel’s history, they had a king you probably never heard of. His name was King Asa. Over the course of 400 years Israel had both good kings and bad kings. King Asa…

Last week we entered 2025. New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day celebrations are a part of our secular culture. Some (not me) stay up to welcome the new year and all the possibilities it may bring. Although we can’t predict what may come, I pray it is a good year for you and our…