Christmas Eve! I was five years old and couldn’t wait for Santa… I wanted presents! “But you have to go to bed”, said my Mother, “or Santa won’t come.” Suddenly in the middle of the night, I heard them… the hooves of Santa’s reindeer on our roof…
Coincidence on the church stairway… It was the middle of the church service… I was volunteering, and had to get from the middle of the main floor to the mezzanine… To avoid distraction, I went out into the lobby and took a little used staircase to the next level… Coming […]
The church service ended…. A few people lingered…forming small groups as they talked with friends… A volunteer walked the aisles, picking up programs and anything else left behind… With his eyes focused on the floor, he didn’t see the two men until they were standing next to him… “We’ve been […]
Are you looking for God in your life? Me too. Sometimes I think he is hiding from me. Maybe it’s just that I’m looking for Him in all the wrong places Here’s a story about the day I found God in a “Burning Bush”…
Each week, Everyday Servant lists four really great posts to read from Christian blogs… In this week’s 4-to read… Tim Challies shares thoughts about grace and self-control… Thom Rainer asks who’s to blame if your church isn’t growing through evangelism… A blogger-mom shares her wishes for her growing daughter… And […]
In the United States, it’s Labor Day… a day to celebrate work and the people who work… Ever get tired of working? What does the Bible have to say about work? Read the 57 verses below or print and save them for later…
Communion ended…. Five words that had seemed ordinary before, jumped into my heart from the bible passages and changed communion forever for me… But what about the rest of my life? Had anything changed besides how I viewed communion? Doubts… I still had doubts… After all… who was I? What could I […]
I was daydreaming in church… It was time for communion … We would eat the same little bread cubes… Drink the same tiny plastic glass of wine… (OK-We’d drink the same tiny plastic glass of grape juice…) And we would do it all while reading the same Bible verse… I wasn’t […]
Fear … Fear can stop us from acting… Fear can keep us from serving God Fear can keep us from see the good and wonderful things God has put in our lives… What does the Bible say about overcoming fear? Below are 58 verses. Read them now or print them for […]
“I just found a signed check for $5,000 on the floor!” called a volunteer… “Don’t throw things in the trash before you really look at them.” It had been a very large conference… Now it was over… Rooms that had been filled with thousands of people listening, applauding and singing […]