“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas A. Edison WORK: JOB OR JOY? This Monday is Labor Day, a legal holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September. Labor Day is a celebration in honor of the working class. The...
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Building Bridges, Issue 17, August 20, 2020
“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure." (Hebrews 6:19a) ONE GREAT HOPE: A Letter of Encouragement to Steadfast Endurance. With this title, Co-valedictorian Grace Minter challenged her classmates. With our having to reschedule the graduation...
Building Bridges, Issue 16, May 21, 2020
“It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity.” (Frederic D. Huntington,...
Building Bridges, Issue 15, April 10, 2020
“Jesus Christ did not come into this world to make bad people good; he came into this world to make dead people live." (Lee Strobel, The Case for Christ) This week begins with Jesus being lauded as a king on Palm Sunday as he rides a colt into Jerusalem. The crowds...
Building Bridges, Issue 14, March 16, 2020
“Our faith and determination is in the sovereign Lord who upholds and sustains us by His power and love.” from Mid-Atlantic's response to COVID-19 Who would have thought we would be talking about college campuses closing; the cancellation of the ACC Tournament, the...
Building Bridges, Issue 13, January 20, 2020
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Growing up in the 1960’s I assumed that my experience was a...
Building Bridges, Issue 12, January 7, 2020
“Church, we must remember that God isn’t calling us to just hate abortion. He’s calling us to value the life of a baby. God isn’t calling us to simply make abortion illegal. He’s calling us to make abortion unthinkable . . . ." (Christians, Being Anti-abortion Doesn’t...
Building Bridges, Issue 11, November 27, 2019
“In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other's homes and talk by crackling woodstoves, sipping mellow cider. They travel very far . . . to share a meal with one another and to give thanks for their many blessings - for the food on their...
Building Bridges, Issue 10, November 11, 2019
“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." Douglas MacArthur November 11 is Veteran’s Day. Title 38 defines a Veteran as anyone that has served in the Armed Forces and was...
Building Bridges, Issue 9, September 4, 2019
“Christians experience grief but without despair, sorrow but without defeat, sadness but without hopelessness.” Tim Challies, "How to Grieve Like a Christian" All of us must face seasons of life that bring a time of separation, grief, and pain. People that we love are...