by Patty Parker | Jan 25, 2022 | Faith & Heritage
There’s a saying that’s getting a lot of airtime these days. It comes in different packages like make your own path, speak your truth, or you be you. No matter the words, it boils down to a saccharine-sweet phrase which has been around for a very long...
by Wade Berry | Jan 21, 2022 | Faith & Heritage
When I last wrote, I asked us to consider what it would look like to focus on Jesus in the coming year. Turning my attention to Hebrews 12:1-2, however, often forces me to consider again the rest of that wonderful and challenging chapter. As the chapter unfolds, the...
by Karl Fickling | Jan 11, 2022 | Faith & Heritage
We were blessed to go on a European river cruise (pre-pandemic), but it quickly became a little awkward. At every lunch and dinner, I was declining glasses of wine which flowed freely at every table. “Really!?!?! You don’t want white or red?” the waiters asked in...
by Wade Berry | Jan 4, 2022 | Faith & Heritage
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us run the race that is set before us with endurance, ridding ourselves of every impediment and of the sin that so easily entangles, 2 fixing our eyes on the founder and finisher of the faith,...
by Patty Parker | Dec 28, 2021 | Faith & Heritage
As we close the chapter on 2021, I don’t know whether to let out a sigh of relief or hold my breath. What a year. This past January, the people of the United States came together to inaugurate a new president. We sat mesmerized as the nation’s youngest inaugural poet...
by Wade Berry | Dec 21, 2021 | Faith & Heritage
In our last time together, I wrote about how difficult it is for Christians to construct and maintain a common social identity. I argued that Christian commitment must form the foundation of that identity, and I asserted our identity as people committed to Jesus must...