Our God is an Awesome God! By Jen Crager Growing up and even now, I would describe myself as a “nature” girl. My parents have a cabin along the “Mighty” Muskingum River in Southeastern Ohio. When I was young, we spent many a day enjoying the nature that surrounded us. We love...

The Courage to Have Faith By Pastor Colin Let’s be honest. Our lives are not easy and sometimes it’s really difficult to trust in the Lord – to truly walk in faith as we struggle through life’s challenges. So can God still work through us when our own lack of courage makes living...

How Do We KNOW? By Rocky Black Many of us can remember where we were when major things happened: 9/11, the assassination of President Kennedy, or when Elvis died. We also remember important personal milestones, like our first concert, soccer game or kiss. Where were you when you positively knew that...

Faith for the Impossible by Matt Corlett During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: R...

Who, Me? By Imee Dalton I have come to find that having faith in God is, in a sense, to also have faith in myself, in who I am in Christ. To have faith that despite myself, despite my shortcomings or even my talents, that God has called me to a purpose. That He has uniquely made me and sees in me so...

Un-leaven Livin’ By Rich Jenkins Matthew 5:13-16 “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill ca...

Book: With Christ in the School of Prayer Chapter 6: “How much more?”; or The Infinite Fatherliness of God MAIN PASSAGE: ‘Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone; or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent! If ye then, bein...

Book: With Christ in the School of Prayer Chapter 5: “Ask and It Shall be Given You”; or The Certainty of the Answer to Prayer ‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh f...

Book: With Christ in the School of Prayer Chapter 4: “After this manner pray”; or The Model Prayer Main Passage: After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father, which art in heaven.-MATTHEW 6.9. Andrew Murray devotes this chapter to the Lord’s Prayer. Here, the master becomes our ...

Book: With Christ in the School of Prayer Chapter 3 - “Pray to thy Father, Which is in Secret”; or Alone with God Main Passage: But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secr...