BLESS BE THE TIE THAT BINDS

“But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” (2 Chronicles 15:7 NIV) “Bless be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love, the fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above.”  Perhaps you are familiar with these words written by John Fawcett in 1782.  There was a sense of unity when we used to sing this song at the end of services...

SQUARE PIECES IN ROUND SPACES

“Don’t love the world’s ways.  Don’t love the world’s goods.  Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.  Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father.  It just isolates you from him.  The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way...