This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection That kind of divisiveness, anger, brokenness, those fragmentations and estrangements, proves and fully demonstrates our sin. And when shall God end such fragmentation? . . . The Table of course—for Christ invites all to his Table. —Thomas R. Steagald, A

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection The heart of adoration is love of God for God’s sake. It is the most selfless of prayers, the most silent of prayers: the pray-er reveals in the presence and person of God as much as is humanly possible. —Thomas

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection Suffering gives way to victory and lamentation to song. Purple may be the color of our lives on this side of the river, but every funeral day becomes the day of the Lord, and all will be white. —Thomas R.

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection When people forget past deliverance, along with the stories and prayers that tell and accompany that deliverance, they are likely to lose both faith and hope, their present and future identity along with their history. —Thomas R. Steagald, A House

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection God’s Grace is expressed in the water but not limited to the water. With water or without, God claims us, and does not despise the affliction of the afflicted but desires that all God’s children be well and at peace.

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection We rarely highlight this remarkable fact: that in the face of the hungry crowd, Jesus took what was handed to him and gave thanks for it. —Thomas R. Steagald, A House of Prayer: The Power of Praying in Community (Upper

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection There is deep hunger in us for peace, a deep thirst for what water is and means. All of us need and desire a holy bathing and in that same holy water, to be washed clean of the world and

This week’s featured book: Facing Financial Struggle by Wessel Bentley   Today’s Reflection We live in community, and although we may think that we are the only ones with our kind of trouble, we will be surprised to find [others]. Giving to others may be an answer to their prayer. —Wessel Bentley, Facing Financial Struggle:

This week’s featured book: Facing Financial Struggle by Wessel Bentley   Today’s Reflection If we become obsessed with having more money, we may soon lose the true wealth in our lives—relationships with loved ones, spirituality, hobbies and interests. We may even lose our lives. —Wessel Bentley, Facing Financial Struggle: 28 Days of Prayer (Upper Room

This week’s featured book: Facing Financial Struggle by Wessel Bentley   Today’s Reflection [The Bible teaches] us two lessons about using our resources. The first is to use our resources carefully so that our needs are met. The second is that when there is abundance, we should share it with others. —Wessel Bentley, Facing Financial