As God’s elect, we often find ourselves trying to be everything for everybody, and perhaps we can pull it off for a while but after some time we find that the weight of everyone else’s burdens is too heavy for us to carry. We may even come to realize that excessive emotional and spiritual weight…
By: Rev. Gerry Weesner, Maples United Methodist Church “…I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever– the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.”…
Dear Miss C, All over the news are stories about intolerance. It’s so disheartening to watch the news because every day there is a new story about new shootings, racial and sex discrimination. Seriously. I am a Christian woman, and sometimes I think that we are part of the problem! How can I teach my…
Myanmar (Burma) is a country of extreme contradiction, from golden clad pagodas to beggars who sleep outside. A place where democracy and persecution coexist. Where old conservative laws do little to protect throw away children from drug lords and human traffickers but… a camera pointed at the wrong sign has been known to land people…
