When the longing to be together is finally realized, Solomon and young woman in the song share the wonders of their love story. But nestled in this story is a much bigger love story between Jesus and his church. Listen this week as Pastor Derrick shares more depth of the story, greater connections between the…
Sitting on my desk is a paper with the heading Kaleidoscope. And it got me thinking, what is a kaleidoscope? If you think about it, a kaleidoscope is a small tube like structure into which broken bits and pieces of color are seemingly haphazardly placed. Each colorful shard is rough around the edges. They appear…
This week we started a new series in our worship at Living Word Galena. It’s a study all about the book Song of Songs. While the words of this book are pretty raw, it has a powerful message for all of us. I’m using this week’s Music Monday as a response to that raw yet…
This week we begin a series inside of a series. As the next several weeks unfold we’ll be looking deeper into the book of Song of Songs. We’ll be challenged by its content and seek to gain a more full understanding of how this love song between Solomon and a young woman can help us…
This week in worship we looked at a bible word that may be familiar to many, but misunderstood by some. We’ve probably heard it spoken. Maybe we’ve even read it a time or two. But do we really know what it means? The word is Sabbath. It’s a word that we often translate as day…
There are days in life when reality strikes you square between the eyes. Days when your past catches up to you. Days when your struggles become all too real. There are days when moments turn to eternity as you feel the pain of regret and shame. There are days when you look in the mirror…
All too often we let the load of life exceed our limits or capacity to carry. This week we dig into one of the 10 Commandments and look for the underlying message. When we pull the words off the page, what comes with it? This week Pastor Derrick leads us deeper into an understanding of…
Several weeks as worship ended, one of the ladies at church who’s a hugger did the usual hug on the way out the door. She was wearing one of those nicely knit sweaters and I had my lapel microphone clipped on my tie. As she backed away from the hug we realized that we were…
Some days in life are those should have, would have, could have kind of days. You know the days when you look back and realize you should have done something different. You could have done it completely in a different way. And I you had a chance you’d go back and do that part of your life…
Today we begin a new sermon series that will take us through the summer. It’s a series aimed at tracing the red letters of Jesus and following them through the Bible. We’ll be spending the majority of this series in the Old Testament, looking at the promises of God for his people. This week Pastor…
