All posts by Rev. Suzie Chamness

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Growing in God

Ephesians 4:32: “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ, God forgave you.” God is for us, not just with us. Because of Jesus, God is for us. The Bible says that God didn’t just intend for you to

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Worry Is a Drain on the Spirit

Luke 12:11-12: When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worryabout how you are to defend yourselves or what you are to say; for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that very hour what you ought to say.

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In God’s Image and Homosexual

The Bible speaks authoritatively to four thousand years of time. This is because of the diversity of the book. The Bible speaks from diverse experiences through which God’s people draw conclusions about the Word for them in their own lives. What we know about the

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We Are Not People of Darkness

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.” – John 6:12 Jesus told his followers that they were to be the light of the world,

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Faltering Faith

Faltering faith is like going to a gym, taking your lawn chair and sitting down and watching all the people exercise and then picking up the chair, putting it in the car and then stopping by the local ice cream shop to reward you for

Dove flying in Lisbon, Portugal

And We Bring Help and Peace

Love is the greatest technique for bringing peace. We bring peace when we begin loving others as Christ loved us. We learn to live peaceably with our neighbors not just next door but all those around the world. We are all inter-related. We are all

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Easter Grace: The Resurrection of Hope

There is little agreement regarding the spiritual or physical resurrection of Christ. We use our minds to look at the event only as a theological issue. But people often gather around a common set of values and not theological beliefs. I believe in the resurrection

Rainbow over walkway

How Do We Recognize Success?

1st Corinthians 2:15 reads, “But those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are judged by no one.” I interpret that to mean as long as I am a believer in the spirit or am working toward that spirit, then I must be on

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There’s That Clean Heart

Ever feel like you just don’t know where that heart went? How easy it seems for us to lose the perspective of what is left of us being right and good. All of us feel like we give of ourselves to our job, our partner,