What a World Shattered, Needs From Us

My heart sunk as I pulled up my Facebook page. Again. It was all I could think. I felt sorrow, I felt anxiety, and I felt something that is, I am sure, in close relation to hopelessness. So many emotions and so many feelings...and then I was struck with the most disconcerting feeling of all: selfishness. In…

VBS Reflections: Out of the Dark, We Rise

As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth. His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? ” “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him." (John 9:1-3) The end is drawing near for VBS. We…

VBS Reflections: When Good is not Enough

  Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God." John 3:3 The story of Nicodemus fascinates: the scenario, the person he was and the conversation on that dark night long ago. Day 3 of VBS finds itself nestled deeply in the moments captured between…