Nancy C. Williams

“Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” (1 John 4:11) When I accepted an invitation to our community prayer breakfast earlier this month, I didn’t expect to be gobsmacked by a former football player. I figured we were gathering to pray for our local leaders, teachers, healthcare workers, pastors, first…

“And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth.” (Revelation 16:18) In 1989, Dr. Iben Browning predicted a major earthquake on the New Madrid fault line along the Mississippi River, to occur around Dec. 3, 1990.1 Remember the…

“He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.” (Matthew 28:6) I spent a very long minute in a tomb. As our tour group moved ahead on the path around the Nazareth Village historic park in Israel, I lingered behind. The others had already entered and…

“Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ The King of Israel!” (John 12:13b) As Holy Week approaches and we focus on events leading to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, it’s easy to cruise on by Palm Sunday in our eagerness to get to Easter. Sure, we put palm branches in our churches and…

“…for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters.” (Revelation 7:17a) Water. Such a luxury. When my mom was a toddler in the 1930s Depression, my grandparents had to move to a rustic house in Appalachia…with no running water. But my grandfather knew of a…