by Steven Baines | Mar 22, 2019 | News
Friday, March 22 I have often been frustrated by people who tell you that God doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle. I look with mystery at people in the “prosperity movement.” This thinking denies the magnificence of what makes faith so...
by Steven Baines | Mar 21, 2019 | News
Thursday, March 21 Bad things happen. A hurricane ravages Puerto Rico. A gunman massacres young people in a South Florida school. Wildfires destroy Paradise. We live in a world where bad things happen. Innocent people get hurt. But Jesus teaches us that this is not...
by Michael McMahon | Mar 20, 2019 | Friday Music at Midday, News
Please join us at National City Christian Church this Friday, March 22, at 12:15 p.m.,when organist Jonathan Vaughnwill perform our free weekly Music at Midday concert. Jonathan Vaughn is Associate Director of Music at Christ Church, Greenwich Connecticut, where he...
by Steven Baines | Mar 20, 2019 | News
Wednesday, March 20 Time to Refresh One of the words I’ve adopted from the digital age is “refresh.” The computer will “refresh” my email, bringing in the new and (maybe) fixing the old. I use that word at the beginning of each New Year to evaluate what I’m doing and...
by Steven Baines | Mar 19, 2019 | News
Tuesday, March 19 As Jesus was traveling to Jerusalem, it was reported that Pontius Pilate was upsetting and irritating the Jewish people by ignoring their religious beliefs and demanding that they live by Roman laws and standards. In this scripture, Pilate is using...
by Steven Baines | Mar 18, 2019 | News
Monday, March 18 I sometimes question why tragedies happen to good people while bad things seem not to happen to bad people. This scripture mentions two events in which bad things happened to unsuspecting people. It makes us realize that our existence is delicately...
