Political and social unrest dominate the news, and economic distress grips the entire world. People are easily overcome with a sense of hopelessness and fear. As we approach Christmas this year, it seems appropriate to refocus our attention on the reason we celebrate at all. Christ entered history in times like ours: the Mediterranean [...]
The church season of Advent begins this Sunday. Advent is our opportunity to live in the tension between God’s presence and absence. It’s a celebration of a past event and an anticipation of a future one. It’s disappointment at the world’s darkness and hope for its light. It’s a season of preparing for something [...]
Christ’s Unexpected Reign Revelation 1:4b–8 Our Infinite God “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:8 “I Am That I Am” (Exod. 3:14, KJV). “I am the Alpha and the Omega” (Rev. 1:8). Sometimes the [...]
Reconnecting Through a Bequest: Jimmy and Marjorie Miller Still Giving to First Pres Dalton The home place on Miller Street in Dalton has been sold. The son and daughter who grew up there have moved on to other states, established careers, married and started families. It is one of those families that, [...]
Getting Comfortable Hebrews 10:11–18 Muscle Memory “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds.” Hebrews 10:16 Two decades ago, I bought a book and taught myself to knit. [...]
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