by Steven Baines | Mar 15, 2020 | News
Sunday, March 15 Editor’s Note: Sundays during Lent are known as “little Easters” when believers in the risen Christ join for prayer and worship. Today, we pause in preparation for our worship to God through a Lenten hymn or prayer. May these songs and prayers prepare...
by Steven Baines | Mar 14, 2020 | News
Saturday, March 14 The woman at the well could not understand what Jesus was telling her. She heard his words literally and they made no sense. He asked her to give him a drink, since he was tired and thirsty, having traveled from Judea on his way to Galilee, a...
by Steven Baines | Mar 13, 2020 | News
Friday, March 13 Having read this passage many times, the one thing that has always stood out to me is the fact that the woman’s name is not in the scripture. Without her given name we are free to step into her story more fully and scribble our names in the margin,...
by Steven Baines | Mar 12, 2020 | News
Dear Friends Of National City, After much consideration, coordination, and prayer, we have decided that it is in the best interest for the community health of all concerned: members, tenants, visitors, and the good of the larger community to close our facilities for...
by Steven Baines | Mar 12, 2020 | News
Thursday, March 12 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.”...
by Steven Baines | Mar 11, 2020 | News
Wednesday, March 11 Jesus never followed the conventional path – or the easy road. He was both human and divine. In this story he was an exhausted and impoverished traveler whose companions had gone for food without even leaving him a pitcher to dip into the well....
