By Jacqueline J. Holness Aside from the summer months, Christmas is “the most wonderful time of the year” to me. Although the sky tends to be the dreariest shade of gray and the bare trees are a visual testament to nature’s hibernation during this season, I don’t notice them as much because of the […]
By Dan Lentz 1. What act of service do you most enjoy doing for others? Tell the group what you like most about that act of service and why you find fulfillment doing it. Read Luke 1:57, 58, 67-79. 2. The prophesy in these verses is about John the Baptist who would […]
By Sam E. Stone It had been 400 years since the last of the Old Testament prophets appeared on the scene in Israel. The angel Gabriel’s announcement—first to Zechariah, then to Mary—broke Heaven’s silence. When Zechariah was told that he and his elderly wife, Elizabeth, would be the parents of a son (John), the […]
By Bev and Phil Haas With our busy schedules we seem to be living together but separately. We’re not looking to smother one another, but how can we grow closer—in our extended family as well as our immediate family? We live in Ohio, and even though it’s just the two of us at […]
By Tom Cash On November 16, 2007 my wife and I attended the National Missionary Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. Yoon Kwon Chae from the Korean Christian Gospel Mission was preaching. He shared a personal story about the horrors of war. Chae’s father was a minister imprisoned by the Communists at the beginning of the […]
