by MJR | Aug 21, 2020 | Community
Take a quick look around you. No, don’t look at the masks. Look beyond the mask. Whether you are at home or work or someplace else, you’ll notice that the people around are different. Not only are we physically diverse, there is what is translated above as...
by MJR | Aug 20, 2020 | Community
“Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body—different from one another and each contributing what no other could” C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity There is a lot of discussion today...
by MJR | Aug 19, 2020 | Community
Until I experience occasional pain in my back, I do not give it much thought. But when I do experience pain, it affects my whole body. It’s been years since I experienced a kidney stone and let me say that I do not look forward to another episode. One of the...
by MJR | Aug 18, 2020 | Community
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control reported that twenty-five percent of 18-24 year olds have recently considered suicide. This afternoon I spoke with a physician about this impact of the continued lockdowns on her patients. She responded that in times of...
by MJR | Aug 17, 2020 | Community
You’ve probably heard the phrase – unity in diversity. Today the idea of diversity is more often associated with our differences instead of what unifies us, but that is not a twenty-first century idea. Probably no church in the New Testament was more...
by MJR | Aug 14, 2020 | Community
Over the last few weeks, I have been in touch with fellow followers at work in different places around the world. We all have different views on some things, but we are all working together for the common good for a common goal. As Paul wrote in his first letter to...
