by La Vida | Jan 28, 2022 | Adventure Pursuits, Be Here Now, Devotionals, Rock Gym, Spiritual Formation, Staff Stories
By Sam Craig, Director of Adventure Pursuits and Rock Gym “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” (Matt. 6:26 ESV) It all began a few years ago. I...
by La Vida | Dec 14, 2020 | Advent 2020, Devotionals
“Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that.” Galatians 6:4–5 (MSG) It’s 6 a.m. and still dark. The floorboards creak beneath my feet as I sit up and turn off the alarm. I wander downstairs to make...
by La Vida | Dec 10, 2020 | Advent 2020, Devotionals
The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. Finding Philip, he said to him, “Follow me.”Philip, like Andrew and Peter, was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the...
by La Vida | Dec 3, 2020 | Advent 2020, Devotionals
“After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship...
by La Vida | Nov 30, 2020 | Advent 2020, Devotionals
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our...
by Amber.Hausman | Apr 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Devotionals
SCRIPTURE Mark 4: 18-20 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Others, like the seed sown on good soil, hear...