As I was pulling together thoughts and musings for my blog this month, I came across something I had written as an intro to our National Celebration “Just Jesus” that we hosted in July of ’22. I just couldn’t shake the nudge that the Spirit was...
On one of our morning VC OnLine ZoomDevo’s hosted during our annual 10 days of prayer and fasting last month, we created a word cloud based on responses to this polling query, “capture in a word or two what you think keeps us from taking more seriously the...
There are those times when we come up against something that is outside of the realm of previous experience. It can leave us reeling and uncertain. A challenge. A decision. An impasse in ministry. Demonic resistance. An unexpected turn of events. Mark 9:14-26 captures...
Artwork by J.Kirk Richards The Incarnation, Hospitality and Advent | by David Ruis In late November, we gathered online for the last in our series of 2025 devos around the theme of Hope, Healing, and Hospitality. It was a rich time of communal pressing in and seeking...
A Communal Invitation for Advent: Partnering with the Light | by David Ruis The season of Advent is known as “the season of light.” Waiting. Anticipating. Longing. Each candle – lit and burning A prophetic statement that the light has come – is...
