Note: With our Easter to Pentecost focus on 'blessing our community' our prayers will be simple and to the point. Keep up with the reading...it is worth it!Father, thank You for the reminders of Your deliverance and Your gift of everlasting life. From the stone of Hope (rolled away) to the stone of Help (1 Samuel 7:12) to the Solid Rock upon Whom Your Church is built, we have a blessed assurance a...  Read More

DAY 2 - Monday, April 1, 2024Matthew 22:37–40Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”Scripture InsightsSo now what? With the refrain of Easter Sunday echoing in our e...  Read More

Mark 10:45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.   Read More

O Lord Jesus, Risen Savior, today we worship You! Thank You for the cross! Thank You for the empty tomb! Thank You for showing us Your glory and for sharing that glory with us! Thank You that today means not only our salvation, but present help and future hope! Thank You for the open throne room of heaven where we may enter the presence of our Abba Father! Thank You that when we call on You, You w...  Read More

O Father,May we learn the singular focus of Ruth. Help us embrace You, the One True God. And, embracing You, may we be unwavering in our path of life. Where You lead is where we go. What You say is what we do. Our one goal in life is to be wholly Yours, and so we follow You. Like Ruth and like Moses, help us realize that life is truly brief, so may we spend our lives learning to live wisely. Yes, ...  Read More

O, the darkness of the day that dawned that first Good Friday, for evil was at it's most ambitious and desperate in its attempt to derail and destroy Your salvation plan. How deep the depravity of humanity given over to the heart of evil. Yet, You looked the worst kind of evil (if there is a degree of such) in the eye and declared: "No matter what you fling at me, how hard you beat my body, nailin...  Read More