DUST AND ASHES

Psalm 90, Psalm 51, 2 Cor. 5:20-6:10 Jennifer Hosler Create in me a clean heart: we’ve been singing this song for several weeks now. I love it because it’s a beautiful, simple, Spirit-filled prayer—more than an ordinary praise song. The words of this song are actually taken from an ancient prayer of King David, from…

Let My People Go, So That They May Worship Me

Luke 4: 14-21 Psalm 72 Bryan Hanger Our Nigerian sisters have been kept away from their homes since April. It’s been over 120 days since they were taken. They were taken from their school against their will to be captives and slaves even. Boko Haram, the insurgent group responsible, has shown no hope of mercy…

With Them in Their Suffering

Romans 12:9-21; Galatians 3:26-29; Matthew 6:5-18  Jennifer Hosler If you’ve been looking at the news lately, you’ve seen that our world is full of sorrow and suffering and violence. We look around the planet and see war in Gaza and rockets in Israel, we see festering problems in eastern Ukraine, violence against Christians and Yazidis…