by Brittany Salmon | Dec 1, 2020 | Everlasting Covenant (Advent 2020), Love God Greatly Posts |
Rest is a complicated idea in 2020. There has been so much turmoil, with both solitude and crisis at every corner, that the idea of rest almost seems impossible. And yet, as we celebrate Advent, I cannot imagine a better passage to dive into today. If you haven’t read...
by Crystal Stine | Nov 30, 2020 | Everlasting Covenant (Advent 2020), Love God Greatly Posts |
Our reading today comes from Matthew 5, which is referred to as the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus is shifting into His public ministry and is preparing His disciples for all the ways they are to be set apart from the the scribes, Pharisees, and Gentiles. Jesus focuses on...
by Angela Perritt | Nov 29, 2020 | Everlasting Covenant (Advent 2020), Love God Greatly Posts |
“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” Jesus said to him, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’...
by Crystal Stine | Nov 26, 2020 | Everlasting Covenant (Advent 2020), Love God Greatly Posts |
My daughter has a very special ability to say in ten minutes and a thousand words a story that would take me one sentence and less than a minute. You would assume she had inherited that skill from the author in the family, but no – that is a gift from my husband...
by Lyli Dunbar | Nov 25, 2020 | Everlasting Covenant (Advent 2020), Love God Greatly Posts |
My man and I sat in the car in front of an available house I had discovered online. We’d been searching for a place to land for weeks. Our wedding was ten weeks away, and I had rented my tiny townhouse to a friend. I’d packed up all my belongings and prayed for God to...
by Ebos Aifuobhokhan | Nov 24, 2020 | Everlasting Covenant (Advent 2020), Love God Greatly Posts |
Abraham, to me, is one of the greatest fathers of faith! Not because he did much, but because he dared to believe God would give him descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky when he did not have a child. How could he believe a God he did not know before? How...