(RNS) — The Scripture readings during Advent are a mix of comfort and challenge. On the one hand, the readings from Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 40-56) offer us comfort. The author was speaking to Jewish ...
Six years ago, two weeks before Christmas, our daughter-in-law was diagnosed with a very aggressive breast cancer. Her children were all still at home. She endured the chemo treatments with courage, ...
Some of life’s experiences are often too difficult to handle, or so it seems at the time. When our life and our way appears dark and hopeless, we can reach out to a greater strength to sustain us. It ...
Pastor Ernie Reno has been in the ministry for nearly 50 years, mostly in the same church, but God used the last 25 years to prepare him for the worst event of his life. Ernie (as he prefers being ...
Shiva- The Ascetic, the Destroyer, the Silent One, chooses discomfort. He is a lived reality of spiritual psychology, a mirror to the parts of ourselves we don’t want to see, and a guide into the ...
The Scripture readings during Advent are a mix of comfort and challenge. On the one hand, the readings from Deutero-Isaiah (Isaiah 40-56) offer us comfort. The author was speaking to Jewish exiles in ...
(RNS) — God does not comfort us so we can simply be comfortable. God comforts us so we can comfort others. (RNS) — The Scripture readings during Advent are a mix of comfort and challenge. On the one ...