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Connecting words between thoughts

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 We are moving on in our study of John 3:16; we are going to consider the words, ‘that He.’ The word ‘that’ is kind of a connecting word between two thoughts. “For God so loved the world,” shows the extent of the Creator’s love for His creation. The world is referring to His vast creation, the total sum of all things created. The word ‘that’ connects those thoughts with the ones that are coming, “He gave His ...

Lyft drivers spread Gospel with ministries

NEW YORK (AP) — One is an ordained pastor in Brooklyn, the other a single mother and children’s book author in New Jersey. Both drive for Lyft. Both share the word of God as roving preachers. Pastor Kenneth Drayton and Tomika Reid try to inspire passengers through spiritual guidance on the road as part of what they see as mobile Christian ministries. “You don’t always have to go to a church or sanctuary to experience the restoration and the power of God,” said Drayton, 61, a minister who also preaches at Mantels of Promise Ministries in Brooklyn. He began to drive for ...

How to respond to judgment, discipline

“It was a dark and stormy night.” Rev. 16:17–21 “It was a dark and stormy night.” In his imagined persona as a world-famous author, the Peanuts cartoon character Snoopy, sometimes began his novels, “It was a dark and stormy night.” Charles Schultz, Snoopy’s creator, had him use this phrase because “it was a cliché and had been one for a long time.” It came from the opening sentence of English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1830 novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals when it was ...

Zen Community seeks awareness sitting in silence

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — For more than three decades, members of the Anchorage Zen Community have gathered in unusual venues -- from a busy strip mall to a converted garage -- with the same intention: simply to sit and meditate in silence. Nomadic no more, they have found stillness and stability in a small zendo, or meditation hall, tucked on the edge of two neighborhoods in Alaska’s most populous city and epicenter of urban culture. Being Buddhist in Anchorage is both universal in practice and unique to life in Alaska. The Anchorage Zen Community is influenced by the ...

How a small town became home to 4 Dharmic temples

By RICHA KARMARKAR Religion News Service Tucked away on a hill beyond a vast commercial landscape are the first two Dharmic temples to exist in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin. The 22 acres that are home to the Hindu and Jain Temples of Wisconsin were situated in “the middle of nowhere” when they were built in 2001, according to Sarvesh Geddam, the secretary of the two congregations. Now, the area is laden with fast-food restaurants and surplus warehouses, and Pewaukee, a village next to Waukesha in Milwaukee’s far-west suburbs, has become home to two more groups: devotees ...

Hark, hear the bells

LEWISTOWN — Grace United Methodist Church, 101 Logan St., Lewistown, will host an Advent Concert in the church sanctuary on Sunday, Nov. 27, at 3 p.m. Local musicians who will perform include Trillogy flute quartet, Fred Benner on organ, Grace Church Ringers bell choir, R.B Powell and ...