Success means just being who God made you to be. Knowing this should give you enormous confidence. But you might admit that you’re not very confident most of the time. Maybe you’re just flat out insecure. You may act like you’re confident, but some things about you even you don’t like.

“It is wonderful to be grateful and to sing your praises, LORD Most High! It is wonderful each morning to tell about your love and at night to announce how faithful you are.” Psalm 92:1-2 (CEV)

God loves to give second chances. Consider Jonah. God gave him a mission to tell the people of Nineveh to repent. But Jonah didn’t like Nineveh and wanted the people to experience God’s judgment.

So Jonah ran away from God and ended up in the belly of a fish.

In the Old Testament, priests did two things: They had the right, privilege, and responsibility to go directly to God. They had the privilege and responsibility of representing God to the people and ministering to the needs of other people.

When you are seeking God’s will for your life, you need to understand one very important thing—God is not obligated to reveal Step 2 until you’ve done Step 1.

The church board met last Sunday, and we wanted to make you aware of a few changes that will be taking place effective this Sunday, June 21.

If anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?” 1 John 3:17 (ESV)

God has given you unique talents, gifts, abilities, and skills. But those things weren’t given for your benefit. They were given to you for the benefit of others. And, despite the need to stay closer to home these days, there’s never been a better time to put those gifts to work as you obey God’s command to love your neighbor.

You’re never going to live in harmony with your wife, your husband, your friends, or anybody else without empathy. You can’t have a team without being aware of what’s happening in each other’s lives. That’s why when people work together in an office, they may do work together, but they’re not a team unless they know what’s going on in each other’s lives.

Many of our days seem fearful and uncertain. I am glad to know that we serve a God who loves and cares for His children. No matter what you are facing, He is there. So today, cast all your cares on Him.

This Sunday is a very special day, Mother's Day. It is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood and the influence of mothers. The first holiday was celebrated in 1908, in Grafton, WV when Ann Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St. Andrew's Methodist Church. We have continued this celebration in modern time. It definitely is one of my favorites. I honor my mother, and the ones who have influenced my life as a mother myself.

Please continue to pray for everyone affected or working the front lines still. We are getting closer to seeing progress with our social distancing. I think we all can agree, we are ready to get back to some normalcy. God is working his miracles in showing us just how blessed we are. We have family time again, dinners, games, cooking, and reading the bible together has become our new normal. How wonderful this has been.