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“DIVINE DISTRACTION” by Guest Author Scott Gilliam, Haiku poet Another Advent. It’s start for me delayed by Attention to work. Fleeting time to pray. Airports and hotels my church. But God won’t give up. He knows I’m stressed out. He knows I’m at my wits end. So He tries “Plan B.” “B” for Bethlehem? I…

Many are the times a Christian faith is put to test. Genesis 21: 8-21 talks about an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar together with her son Ishmael and how they were sent away from Abraham’s family. Uncertain about her future life, Hagar and Ishmael ended up as wanderers in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. Life…

So, what is God up to? Sea shells line the beach in meandering five-foot threads that stretch hundreds of yards ahead. Shells of every size, geometry and colorful hue. Pristine, unbroken specimens intermixed with crushed remnants of what had been. All waiting for the morning waves to lap over them in nature’s caressing but never…

The truth about unity. Chris Tomlin is a famous contemporary composer of Christian hymns.  It seems he is also a gifted writer as evidenced by this week’s guest Reflection on “The Truth About Unity in the Church”.  I’m not sure I would buy every last word he has written but he certainly gets down to…