Posts from November 2025
Reading the Christmas Story with Fresh Eyes
As we engage with the season of Advent, I want to invite you into a simple but powerful practice: take time this month to read and reflect on the birth narratives of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1–2 and Luke 1–2). These familiar passages are often wrapped in layers of modern traditions, cultural expectations, and childhood memories. Beautiful as those may be, they can sometimes blur the depth and clarity of the biblical story itself. So here’s the challenge: set aside every assumption. Pretend…
Special Prayer Request
Please be in prayer over Rusty Ribelin. Meredith and Rusty have been in the hospital since 3:30 yesterday afternoon. Rusty is in the hospital with sepsis. Almighty God, make your healing presence and touch known to Rusty. Provide your divine guidance for everyone involved, and please provide peace and assurance for the entire family. We ask this in the name of your Son – Jesus the Christ. Amen. Your prayers are needed and they are heard by our God.~Rev. Healy
The Past Influences the Present
Well, here we are at the doorstep of yet another month—getting ready to step through the doorway of November. That stated, I want to take a moment to backstep to a very significant date in October. No, it’s not Halloween (My goodness! That’s not very Christian!), but it is a crucial pivoting point that occurred over 500 years ago on October 31st in the year of 1517 involving a certain German priest and theologian named Martin Luther. Do you know what it…