Merry Christmas!
Friends, I wish you all a beautiful celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Enjoy time spent with family!
Wendy Pope
Mid-Week Worship: “What Child Is This” by Francesca Battistelli
“This, this is Christ the King, whom shepherds guard and angels sing. Haste, haste to bring him laud, the Babe, the Son of Mary.”
Victory and Glory
The scriptures say that close to 40 years had gone by. The Israelites must have thought after all those years that their crying had fallen on deaf ears. Was the Lord listening? Were they crying in vain? Do you ever feel that way? You have asked God to deliver you from something and it seems as…
When My Mind Says “You Failed”
Lynn Cowell, author of the new Bible study, Make Your Move: Finding Unshakable Confidence Despite Your Fears and Failures. Fail. It’s a word I’ve heard my kids use when something goes wrong. Just plain “fail.” It’s a word I know as well. Failure is what I felt when I’d done all I knew…
Mid-Week Worship: “Right Beside You” by Building 429
“When the world is on your back, and you think that you will never last. When you’re lonely and you are confused, I’ll be right beside you.”
Blessed, Not Lucky
I have decided to remove the word “lucky” from the Pope household and replace it with the word “blessed”. Nothing is left to chance. Luck has nothing to do with blessing. The writer of Hebrews tells us that rewards come to those whose seek the Lord. In Deuteronomy, we read of God’s blessings given to…