People do not grow grape vines for their looks. They grow them for the fruit they produce, and the more they produce the better. Jesus uses the analogy of grape…
Have you ever stopped to consider the different people you encounter in your life and your connection to them? Some of us have more connections than others, but all of…
Do you enjoy receiving invitations? You might say, it depends upon what the invitation is for, a wedding, graduation, dinner date. Jesus told a parable about a man who prepared…
I don’t know how many of you grew up working on a farm. Neither do I know how many of you have planted and tended a garden. But, if you…
You and I are a part of a movement unlike anything this world has ever seen. It began before, what the apostle Paul called, “the foundation of the world,” with…
Over 150 years ago, Fanny J. Crosby penned the words to a hymn which many of us have grown up singing. The words to this hymn call for a response…