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Rising in Love Part 6: Love never fails

Blog by Nikayla Reize Love never fails. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for...

Rising in Love Part 3: Love is not rude.

Blog by Nikayla Reize Love is patient and kind. Love isn’t jealous, boastful, or arrogant. Love isn’t rude. Love doesn’t insist on its...

Rising in Love Part 2: Love isn’t envious, boastful, or arrogant

Blog by Nikayla Reize Love is patient, love is kind. Love isn’t envious, boastful, or arrogant. – 1 Corinthians 13:4 I’ve been using the...

Lent Week 1 : We Are All In Exile, Exile Is All Around Us

Exile is a powerful word. It conjures up images of isolation, wandering, rejection, even death. Exile means being plucked out of your...

Fallen is Virgin Israel – the Assyrian Exile

Read Amos 5:18-25 and 2 Kings 17 Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be...

Elijah and Elisha From the Outside In

Read: 1 Kings 17-18 and 2 Kings 5 Should the Kings of Israel exalt themselves to the seat of Pharaoh we should expect God to send another...

Solomon’s Eden, Solomon’s Egypt

Read: 1 Kings 3, 10-11 I was considering calling this sermon, “Shalom’s Eden, Solomon’s Egypt” because the English shrouds the fact that...

The Love-Hate For David

Read: 2 Sam 7, 11, 1 Kings 1-2 David is the dominant figure in the Old Testament. We are fascinated, bewildered, sometimes embarrassed,...

Beloved King David and His God

Beloved King David and His God Read: 1 Sam 16:6-8, 1 Sam 18:1-5, 2 Sam 3-6 The David story begins perfectly – he’s small, insignificant,...

God with Regrets, an Obsessive King, the Witch of Endor, Oh My!

Read 1 Sam 8-28 This part of your Bible will present a God that doesn’t fit into your categories. He is sad and angry and at times you’ll...

Samuel and the Dangerous Presence of God

Read 1 Samuel 3-7 It all started with a mother. She longed for a child and prayed fervently to God from the depths of her heart. The...