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....
by Steven Baines | Mar 10, 2020 | News
Tuesday, March 10 Why did Jesus come to the well? Why did the Samaritan woman come to the well? Why do you or I come to the well (church)? What are we looking for? Who do we think we might encounter there? The Samaritan woman certainly got more than she had expected....
by Steven Baines | Mar 10, 2020 | News
Monday, March 9 In this passage, Jesus shines his light on tribal and judgmental divisions, our tendency to write off people who are different from us or who do not meet the mores of our society. As the Samaritan woman pointed out, Jesus, in speaking to her,...
