During the summer of 2007 I was hit hard with Lyme disease, missing about a month of work. One of the most lasting effects of the disease was the lack of sleep, which lasted for many months, and came back again in 2010 when I...
This past Sunday we kicked off a new series called, “For Rhode Island”! As a church we desire, like Nehemiah, to see revival among the people nearest and dearest to us. We know this was a passion of Nehemiah’s because it says in scripture that...
Our new sermon series for December is “God with Us.” We are reminded that the Creator of the Universe, in the person of Jesus Christ, became a human being and lived on earth for over three decades. Jesus left His heavenly home, set aside His...
It was just about 25 years ago that I became a member at Cranston Christian Fellowship. 25 years is more than half my life time. I came to CCF as a young adult at the invitation of a friend. I was already a Christian, but...
This week while reading the book of Corinthians, I came to the second half of Chapter 6, in which Paul writes: “Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God?” Immediately, verses about the Kingdom of God came to...
We've been talking a lot about Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes lately. But, did you know about the journey these shoeboxes take after they're packed and collected? These small gifts packed with love result in evangelism and discipleship for children and their families all around the...
She was nine months pregnant and decided to stay home with her newborn. As my co-worker, “Jan,” said her goodbyes, she stopped in my office and said, “I don’t think you know this, but it’s because of you that I met my husband. I just...
God’s goal in saving us is total transformation. He is not interested in incremental improvement, changing a few habits or smoothing off a few rough edges. God’s plan for us is total annihilation of our fallen nature and complete restoration of body, mind, and spirit...
Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times." Matthew 18:21-22 It can be hard to forgive. We stack up...
The human brain wants to categorize. It's a necessary function of how our brains accomplish the monumental task of filtering a flood of information into a narrative that makes sense--it's cognitively efficient. But this high-level computational ability God created in our brains is not free...