Focus on Faith – Hospitality is showing love
How good are we at welcoming someone into our midst who is different than we are? Here in Beardstown, where we have so many different nationalities...
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Focus on Faith – The Boss of Our Lives
I bought a hat at the fall festival. I picked this hat because of what it said. In big bold letters it reads: Jesus Is My BossI thought, well, that hat...
Focus on Faith – What is the best advice you have ever been given?
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever gotten? Who gave that advice to you? What was the circumstance that necessitated the wise words that changed...
Focus on Faith – Finding life in God, the Living Water
When I was a young person, oh let’s say 20 years old, I wanted nothing to do with church. What a boring place, I thought. What a judgmental place, I...
Focus on Faith – The battle of good vs. evil
A large chunk of the world doesn’t believe that the devil really exists. They chalk up all the evil in the world to bad nations, bad systems, and bad...
Focus on Faith – Lies vs little white lies
When was the last time that you told a lie? A lie is when you say something that you know to be untrue. When was the last time that you told a little...
Focus on Faith – A Picture of Grace
In the New Testament book of Acts, the author Luke points to the most famous King of all Israel, King David. In Acts 13 verses 21 and 22 Luke says...
Focus on Faith – Just a little faith
Matthew 17 tells the story of a man whose son is possessed by a demon. The father had tried to bring the son to some of Jesus’ disciples for them to...
Focus on Faith – Grandparents Day
If you didn’t know, Sunday, September 8, was Grandparents Day. Like Mother’s and Father’s Day, this is one of those national days where we are reminded...
Focus on Faith – Do not be afraid
The Gospel of Luke is an intentional tapestry, ordered carefully by the pen of Luke inspired by the Holy Spirit in order to produce one thing...