By Rev. Mark Breese: “It feels a little magical and it helps float the troubles away for a time. Each step feels like I’ve entered the magical Technicolor world of OZ and I’m walking down my own ‘Yellow Brick Road’.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: “Hope is built into struggle. We do not struggle or wrestle with something unless we have the hope of change. Our text does not say why Jacob wrestled with this stranger it only says that he did, all night long, and he wasn’t going to let go until he received a blessing.”
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Sometimes you just need a little laugh. Reverend Fun cartoons were drawn by Dennis Hengevel. The Reverend Fun series has over a decade of cartoons and is part of the Bible Gateway Family of online resources.
Read the text: Genesis 1:1-2:3
By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: “An important step in any dance that requires a partner is that the follower let the leader lead. In life, there are times when we are called to be a leader, and times when we are called to follow one. We always have a choice to follow or to lead.”
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Sometimes you just need a little laugh. Reverend Fun cartoons were drawn by Dennis Hengevel. The Reverend Fun series has over a decade of cartoons and is part of the Bible Gateway Family of online resources.
Read the text: Genesis 2:18-25
By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: “We sometimes make God so small, don’t we. As human beings we feel we are superior to other life forms on earth – but a bird’s ability to see what we human beings cannot see causes me to believe that each of God’s creatures have their own unique superiority in God’s kingdom.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Mark Breese: “Really, when you think about it, why would they be silent! And in this particular story, it is totally improbable that people would keep mum. The dude could not hear or speak. Then suddenly he could! If he kept quiet, that would kind of defeat the purpose of being healed in the first place.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Wendy Depew Partelow: You can also read the Bible in a way that speaks the love and mercy of God, forgiveness for all who seek to know him, and God’s preferential treatment of the poor and destitute ON EVERY SINGLE PAGE, if you’ve a mind and heart to read it that way.”
Continue reading →By Rev. Mark Breese: “What was I doing, like, looking for something to bummed out about? Why in the world would I do that? So I sat for some time thinking about that, till long after it got dark.”
Continue reading →By Reverend Fun: “Sometimes you just need a little laugh.”
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