On this New Year’s morning—January 1, 2026—as I sit at the kitchen table working on a men’s ministries devotional and gazing out at the snow-covered lawn, my heart is drawn to the beautiful promise found in Isaiah: “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as...
As we come to the end of 2025, Christmas invites us to pause and reflect on how God has been good to us. Yet when we look honestly at our current reality—and at the prayer requests within our church—we see how much uncertainty, fear, and exhaustion people are carrying....