Sam Hardman

The Pain and Pleasure of Having Pretensions Exposed

I suppose we all struggle with self-awareness. There is an image that we want to project to the world – a way that we want to be

Sam Hardman

Peace Amid Chaos

Picture this: “And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But [Jesus] was in the stern, asleep on

Sam Hardman

Loving and Knowing

No doubt the use of the verb “to know” as the favored way of describing sexual intimacy in the Bible must seem an oddity to the modern Western mind. “Now Adam

Sam Hardman

A Prayer for Times of Weariness

Lord, you have bid the weary to come to you,

And in my weariness I come.

The pilgrimage through this world is so often hard,

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Following is a letter written by an adult daughter in our congregation to her father. It is published here as an encouragement to you to reach out similarly to someone in your life that God has used

Sam Hardman

A Bit of True Religion

Imagine this: You are responsible for 350 children in Nigeria, all of whom have either been orphaned or are from impoverished families. You have built an

David Feister

The Joy of the Harvest

Tuesday is harvest day. That’s when we pull the most mature lettuce plants out of the aquaponics system, rinse off the roots, and bag the leafy greens to

Sam Hardman

“It Was the Best of Times”

Those are the opening words of Charles Dickens’ famous novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set at the time of the French Revolution. They have been borrowed

Kevin Steyer

On Singleness

The Church needs to recover the value placed on singleness which is so obviously revealed both in the Bible and in the majority of the history of the Church. First, the

Sam Hardman

Captured by the Stew

Once, in a land far away, there was a lovely little vegetable garden, happily growing in fertile bottomland. It was close enough to a fresh, clean, little country

Sam Hardman

Seeing with Spiritual Eyes

All of us have, in one way or another, had the experience of having a firmly held perspective on a situation or person or idea shattered by new information

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He Removes Kings and Sets Them Up

We tend to be a little too full of ourselves in America. We are a people who are free. Our public officials serve with the consent of those who are

Sam Hardman

Light That Conquers Darkness

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light;

Those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.”

That’s what

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A Prayer of Thanksgiving

O Architect of worlds,

            Author of life,

            Creator of all beauty,

            Giver of every good

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A Prayer for the Journey

O Lord of the heavenly city with everlasting foundations that cannot be shaken,

            very abode of God,

            home of

Sam Hardman

True Power and Wisdom

What do you think about when you hear the word “power?” And what do you think the typical person thinks about when they hear that word? We’re in election

Sam Hardman

The Church in Crisis 

It takes no great insight to see that the Church in America has been operating in crisis mode for most of this year. The trigger, of course, was the lockdowns

Sam Hardman

Not Afraid of Bad News

This past week I had to spend a few days in the hospital. My daughter, who deeply appreciates the writings of C.H. Spurgeon, kindly and insightfully made sure

Sam Hardman

Feed Your Joy

Are you ever tempted to think that joy in the heart of a Christian just happens naturally, and that it grows inevitably as the years go on? Or have you come to see that