The Daily Memo | September 22, 2020 | God’s Purpose
What is the purpose of life? Throughout human history, people have been trying to answer that question. Books have been written on the subject, and philosophers have postulated many answers. But for Christians, God’s purpose is concisely outlined in today’s passage. Believers are called according to His purpose and are foreknown by Him. God’s foreknowledge […]
Echos and A Big Announcement – By Shelleen Weaver
In an effort to give my brother and I a wholesome country upbringing, when I was six years old, my family moved from a lovely four bedroom home on a few acres in the Poconos that was built by my grandfather to our 77 acres of hunting land in Potter County, Pennsylvania. The mile-long “driveway”, […]
The Daily Memo | September 16, 2020 | Denying Ourselves
In the fourth century A.D., the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, Arabia, and Persia were peopled by a race of men who left behind them a strange reputation. They were the first Christian hermits, who abandoned the cities of the pagan world to live in solitude. One of the reasons why they fled from the world […]
The Daily Memo | September 10, 2020 | How Your Life Can Make a Difference
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) is best known for the Nobel Peace Prize. Less well known is the fact that Alfred Nobel also invented dynamite. As well as a chemist, engineer and innovator, he was a weapons’ manufacturer. In 1888, Alfred’s brother Ludvig died. A French newspaper erroneously published Alfred’s obituary. It condemned him for his invention […]
The Daily Memo | September 3, 2020 | As It Was in the Garden
Most of us are painfully aware of how much crime, violence, sin, and deprivation exist in our world today. Traveling back in time and through scripture, we’ve become familiar with a climatic paradise that apparently needed no rain because it was watered by a mist coming up from the ground (Genesis 2:6). There were no […]
The Daily Memo | August 25, 2020 | Coming Soon: The Next Jesus Movement
The Jesus movement was an evangelical Christian movement beginning on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and spreading primarily throughout North America, Europe, and Central America. Members of the movement were called Jesus people or Jesus freaks. Some of the fastest-growing US denominations of the late 20th century, such as Calvary Chapel, Hope Chapel Churches, and […]