Mission to Southeast Asia Through the Years
A photo gallery of past mission trips to Southeast Asia (to be updated soon!)...
Keep ReadingDarrin and Rick conclude pastor training. Read their updates, including hope amid devastating floods and ways to pray as they travel home....
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A video from 2015 shows a new audience the country of Nepal and her people....
Waiting for God can leave us weary, especially when nothing seems to change. Through the psalmist's honest prayers and the picture of a farmer waiting for a seed to grow, this article explores how we can trust God's Word and remain faithful when His work is hidden from view....
The Hebrew midwives in Exodus faced a choice with life-or-death consequences. Their response shows us where to turn when the pressures of the world conflict with what God says....
When suffering continues, our prayers often focus on escape or explanation. Psalm 119:73–80 teaches us to seek God’s comfort and mercy while also asking Him to guard our hearts, use our experience to encourage others, and make us faithful through the trial....
When suffering makes God’s goodness difficult to see, Psalm 119:65–72 teaches us to anchor our faith in His character, His Word, and the cross. Affliction may expose our wandering, reshape our priorities, and deepen our dependence on God—even before we understand what He is accomplishing....
When God Himself Is Your Portion: Psalm 119 asks us to look beneath our desires and consider where we expect lasting satisfaction to come from....
At our Father’s Day festivities, we set up a cold brew coffee station and quickly discovered that many in our church family were not entirely sure what cold brew was, how to drink it, or whether it should be trusted. Since we have some left over and plan to serve it again during our Fourth of July festivities, here is a very friendly, very unofficial cold brew primer. Learn what cold brew is, how it is different from iced coffee, where it likely began, and a few simple ways to enjoy it....
Esau’s decision to trade his birthright for a bowl of stew seems foolish from a distance. But his story presses a question into our own hearts: how often do we trade the lasting promises of God for temporary relief, comfort, or ease? This short devotional reminds Christians to trust God’s promises, keep praying, and resist settling for something less than His best....
A photo gallery of past mission trips to Southeast Asia (to be updated soon!)...
Keep ReadingDarrin and Rick conclude pastor training. Read their updates, including hope amid devastating floods and ways to pray as they travel home....
Keep ReadingDarrin and Rick have arrived and have begun their time teaching......
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The question “Did I do enough?” can feel heavy. Many of us quietly wonder whether we are enough as parents, spouses, friends, workers, church members, or children of God. In Luke 18:9–14, Jesus tells a parable about a Pharisee who keeps score and a tax collector who cries for mercy. This post reflects on the hidden burden of trying to be good enough and the freedom ...
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In the final post of our Growing Chicks series, we look back on Michele’s chicks from their earliest spring days to their move into the “general population” of the luxury chicken coop. Along the way, they reminded us of new life, awkward growth, patient care, and finally the joy of seeing God’s creatures do what they were created to do....
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At our Father’s Day festivities, we set up a cold brew coffee station and quickly discovered that many in our church family were not entirely sure what cold brew was, how to drink it, or whether it should be trusted. Since we have some left over and plan to serve it again during our Fourth of July festivities, here is a very friendly, very unofficial cold brew primer. Le...
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This week's chicken update features lettuce, watermelon, frozen corn and granola straight from Michele's hand. Tucked inside all of that feeding is a simple reminder for us too: steady growth comes from steady nourishment. ...
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A reflection inspired by Sincerely, Stoneheart and our growing chickens about the destructive nature of comparison, the pressure to keep pace with others, and the freedom that comes from looking to Christ instead of sideways at everyone else....
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