This week’s featured book: By Water and the Spirit, Revised Study Guide by Gayle Carlton Felton, Mark Stamm Today’s Reflection Salvation is not just an event, but a journey. The process of growing in grace and holiness never ends. The church needs to teach and nurture individuals toward an initial profession of faith and
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This week’s featured book: By Water and the Spirit, Revised Study Guide by Gayle Carlton Felton, Mark Stamm Today’s Reflection The baptism of an infant becomes a particularly powerful way to show how God works to save us. All of us, regardless of our age, remain utterly dependent upon divine grace. The glorious, joyful
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This week’s featured book: By Water and the Spirit, Revised Study Guide by Gayle Carlton Felton, Mark Stamm Today’s Reflection Because the church is a community rather than a collection of separate individuals, baptism is not a private ceremony or simply a personal transaction between an individual and Christ. The sacrament proclaims the good
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This week’s featured book: By Water and the Spirit, Revised Study Guide by Gayle Carlton Felton, Mark Stamm Today’s Reflection We are unable to achieve our own salvation. But God gives each person the capacity to respond to the offer of saving grace. As we respond in trusting faith, God gives us more grace,
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This week’s featured book: By Water and the Spirit, Revised Study Guide by Gayle Carlton Felton, Mark Stamm Today’s Reflection We often avoid acknowledging our own sin by blaming others. . . . Scapegoating encourages us to avoid our own responsibility. Unfortunately, this unwillingness to look honestly at sin is not limited to secular
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This week’s featured book: By Water and the Spirit, Revised Study Guide by Gayle Carlton Felton, Mark Stamm Today’s Reflection It is through the sacrament of baptism that we are given our identity as people for whom Jesus Christ lived, died, and was resurrected. In baptism, we are initiated into the Christian church; we
This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by Today’s Reflection In a place of loss and humiliation, [Job] chooses faithfulness over bitterness. Ashes—a symbol of grief and ruin—become the setting in which Job’s reverence for God is most clearly revealed. —Penny Story, The Upper Room Disciplines 2027: Daily Devotions Based on the
This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by Today’s Reflection We are people of this sacred covenant, an extension of the covenant God made with David. What does it mean to be people of the covenant? We can trust God with confidence as David did, and go to God for guidance. —Don
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This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by Today’s Reflection The world tells me that my body is either a problem to be fixed or a commodity to be exploited. But contemplative practice invites something else: to be fully present to my embodied self with tenderness and care. —Aizaiah G. Yong, The
This week’s featured book: The Upper Room Disciplines 2027 by Today’s Reflection The birth of the church is not a quiet, gentle arrival—it comes with wind and fire, chaos and confusion, with languages and new voices. . . . The Spirit comes as a holy disrupter that ignites and transforms the people. —Grace Ji-Sun
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