It happened so fast. There we were, walking through the Riverbanks Botanical Garden. It
was early evening and cloudy. The flowers were beautiful. The trees vibrant. It was Spring.
Everything seemed so normal. But that’s when we saw it
Centennial Happenings
The latest updates on events and a weekly word from our Pastor
Everybody loves alarm clocks, right? Well, sometimes we love to hate them, but that’s not the whole truth! Alarm clocks are all around us, and that’s a good thing. We’ve got the usual ones by our bedsides (phones now!), some have the little living ones (babies), and we all have internal ones (hunger, for instance).
Recently these two verses from Isaiah 42 have been stuck in my head! As I was studying the text of 1 Peter 2:1-10, I discovered that Peter clearly referenced these verses. He says, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9, emphasis added).