Archive for October, 2015
Windswept – November 2015
“Because of God’s Great Mercy” is the title of Spirit of Joy’s stewardship emphasis this year. We begin the emphasis by remembering all that God has done for us. God has created us and made us God’s own people. God has chased us with goodness and mercy through our trials.
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REFORMATION ROOTS: 500 years ago, the world was a different place in many ways than it is today. There was no separation of Church and State; there was great fear of plagues and death, there were relics and rituals, fire and brimstone. It was an era of striving—to be clean of sin by confessing enough and doing all the right things.
Continue ReadingWindswept – September 2015
Ann Burnett, a professor of communications at North Dakota State University, started noticing 15 years ago how the Christmas letters she received from family and friends were changing. More and more of them began to highlight the pace and accomplishments of another year, instead of sharing “blessings of the season.”…
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