Gracious God and Father, although Your Son, Jesus Christ, came to bring us Your heavenly peace, violence and conflict still rage among Your children on earth. Keep us ever faithful in a broken world spinning out of control, recognizing the signs of Your Son’s eventual return: civil unrest, pestilence, natural disasters, by always trusting Your abiding […]

We live daily with a firehose flow of information. Is what reaches our ears or eyes accurate?  Will what we learn via social media in the morning of one day be found false by the evening of the next day?  Is what we are urged to pass along to others by the click of a […]

Did you ever witness a kidnapping?  We think of movies depicting someone forcibly taken against the person’s will and a large cash payment is demanded by the perpetrator.  We are relieved when the villain’s plot is foiled and the captured one is brought to safety. The prophet Hosea described a setting where a specific ransom […]