Beside Still Waters Ministries

I’ve been having a lot of allergy issues, along with working so much during the week, that I was feeling pretty off today and it really showed. My voice was giving out by the middle of the service, and I just didn’t have much energy. I was disappointed especially with how “Before The [...]

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You may or may not recognize his name, but Isaac Watts hymns are the most widely known throughout the Christian world – you should at the very least recognize one of his hymns, Joy To The World.  Born in 1674 in Southampton, England, he was the oldest of nine children and raised in a Nonconformist [...]

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I really think that this was my strongest Sunday so far, and I hope that the congregation was able to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.  Being mostly older people, they aren’t very demonstrative and so it is hard to tell.  I was able to modulate up a half step or two on the last verses of some [...]

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We kept this service pretty simple, and we didn’t have footwashing (which I personally missed).  Something that was different for me is that they “stripped the sanctuary”, which meant that they took out the Bible, candlesticks, communion elements, whatever else that was on the altar, and the vestments hanging from the front pulpits.  I’ve never [...]

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This is the ultra-cute card I found to send Bridget for her birthday coming up in April.  It folds out into a dollhouse, and there are stickers along with “punch-out and fold” furniture and paper dolls.  It was really hard to find a card that wasn’t all “rich America” with cartoon characters on it (like [...]

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