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This is why there are times when the most instructive question to bring to the text is not “what does it say?” but “what am I looking for?” I suspect Jesus knew this when he said, “ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be […]
In a season of drought, let’s focus on water stewarsdhip and appreciation. Let’s also consider its spiritual resonances, and take time to savor upcoming milestones such as graduations. Songs about water: Something in the Water by Carrie Underwood (country/Christian) Hold Back the River by James Bay (pop ballad) Black Water by the Doobie Brothers (country) […]
Music: Better Days by Goo Goo Dolls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-kHleNYIDc&feature=youtu.be Be the Change by Britt Nicole: https://youtu.be/mHguyidMS50 A Long December by Counting Crows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrsSbjcKCBg New Year by Pentatonix: https://youtu.be/ZsJt7j96n0s Next Year by Foo Fighters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1qQuSuQaHY New Year’s Day by Bon Jovi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i5fBY3a5Q0 What Are You Doing New Years Eve by Ella Fitzgerald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFdfzNMV52Q Lets Keep Falling In […]
Daily Devotional for this week: https://jacksoncommunitychurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/hope_advent_devotional_booklet_cover.pdf ADVENT INTRODUCTION Each week we kindle a new light. Each day, in this countdown toward Christmas, we meditate on the courage and conviction that causes us to renew that flame again and again and again. The theme of each week offers us a gift of preparedness to live in […]
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. — Frederick Douglass And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Khalil Gibran Pentecost Blessing — Jan Richardson On the day when you are wearingyour certainty like a cloakand your […]
