3-29-2015 High Life Update

3-29-2015 High Life Update

Dear Parents, With Easter quickly approaching, we turned out attention to this special holiday in our High Life class. While the typical Easter story might only focus on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we chose to go a little further back in the story to...
Simple Faith: Public Display of Affection

Simple Faith: Public Display of Affection

I’m a sucker for anything that looks like it’s already going 100 MPH on the Autobahn. That’s why the shiny new Audi in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant caught my eye—or perhaps it’s because my granddaughter drives an older version of the same car. But it was...
3-22-2015 High Life Update

3-22-2015 High Life Update

Dear Parents, This week in High Life we completed our six-week series called Happy which has focused on finding true happiness in life by pursuing God’s path rather than the world’s path. Our key text for all of these lessons has been Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, in...
Simple Faith Devo: Here Kitty Kitty

Simple Faith Devo: Here Kitty Kitty

On the way to prayer meeting at our little country church, I stopped to feed Grandma Alice’s cats, entrusted to my care while Marilyn’s grandparents were away. It was late in the summer and very late in the day. The sun was losing its battle with twilight, leaving...
3-22-2015 High Life Update

3-15-2015 High Life Update

Dear Parents, This week in High Life we continued our series called Happy with a lesson on being pure in heart. Purity is a high calling. Imagine if you were offered a plate of cookies, and as you dug in, you were told that something weird was thrown in, like a...
Simple Faith Devo: God Advertises in the Gazette

Simple Faith Devo: God Advertises in the Gazette

My grandparents lived out their lives in the shadow of Anchor Hocking’s Plant One on Garfield Avenue. Interestingly, neither worked at Anchor and so how they came to live in the midst of Lancaster’s version of an Industrial Revolution neighborhood is an incredible...