Dear Friends, This week we will celebrate Good Friday. To help get myself prepared for the service at our church, I decided to spend each day reading different passages that describe the day Christ was crucified. The first passage was John 19:28-30, which tells us: “Jesus knew that His mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture He said, ‘I am thirsty.’ A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to His

Dear Friends, The other day I was watching a TV show, and one of the characters exclaimed, “Jumpin Jehoshaphat”. It caught my attention because, let's be honest, it's not a phrase we hear very often these days. It got me thinking about the actual Jehoshaphat, so today I spent some time reading about his life as told in the Bible. For those of you not familiar with his story, Jehoshaphat was a king of Judah, and his story is told in 1st & 2nd Kings, and 1st & 2nd Chronicles. T