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Using God and Nature to Create A Beneficial Blend

The owners of the skincare company have used their faith and love of God to produce a healthy, beneficial skin care line. Melissa Summers-Beauperthuy and her husband, Mark, were motivated by their love of farming and natural foods.

Words of the Week – I just can’t keep it to myself!

Have you ever had an experience so exciting that you just couldn’t keep it to yourself? Maybe you quickly called up a friend or rushed home to inform your spouse or when the Pastor called for this week’s testimonies, you rapidly stood up, unable to control your excitement…because you just had to tell somebody!! 

Words of the Week – Seven Last Days of Christ – Part 1

Each week in March, I will share an account of His final week alive – what He was doing and experiencing, even though He knew He had only seven days live. I wonder, can you say what you would be doing, if you knew when you would breathe your last breath? Come with me and let us eavesdrop in on our hero and walk with Him during His final week as a living human being.

I Saw God, Faith, and Medicine in Action

Last week, I had an opportunity to see the power of God firsthand—had my faith tradition reinforced and saw the strength in medicine, all working together for the good! 

Words of the Week – Rest In the Lord

Scripture – Psalm 37:1-7a, NKJV We must learn to rest. Rest is just as important as movement. We must learn to live free from activity. I’m not suggesting we become lazy. Lazy is just doing nothing. Resting is consciously choosing to pause from one’s work. Rest is about the journey. Laziness has no journey. There are seven types of rest: physical (body) rest, mental (mind) rest, emotional (soul) rest, sensory rest, creative rest, social rest, and spiritual rest. Spiritual rest is the most important, but all forms of rest are necessary. Spiritual rest allows the body, mind and soul to recharge. Spiritual rest is achieved by pausing sensory, creative, and social activities. Spiritual rest is resting

Words of the Week – Stay Woke

Scripture: I Thessalonians 5:1-11 The phrase stay woke has been present in African American Vernacular English (Ebonics) since the 1930s. It is referred to as an awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans. The phrase was uttered in recordings from the mid-century by my wife’s great uncle, folk singer Huddie Leadbetter (Lead Belly). He used the phrase as part of a spoken afterword to his 1938 recording of his song “Scottsboro Boys,” which tells the story of nine teenagers falsely accused, convicted and jailed of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931. Erykah Badu admonished her post