From the PBS special “The Blues”:
On a lonely night in 1903, W.C. Handy, the African American leader of a dance orchestra, got stuck waiting for a train in the hamlet of Tutwiler, Mississippi. With hours to kill and nowhere else to go, Handy fell asleep on a hard wooden bench at the empty depot. When [...]

en-cour-age-ment \in-’ker-ij-ment\  n 1: something that almost everybody wants but few know how to give
It’s more than a sympathy card. What the Bible envisions for  church communities is an atmosphere that:

urges
admonishes
exhorts
cheers
inspires
charges
and yes, comforts.

Encouragement is a multi-dimensional ministry to keep us all moving forward “so that (we) would walk in a manner worthy of the [...]

The beatitudes form the first portion of what has been called “The Sermon on the Mount.”   There is probably no speech, no discourse, no sermon that has gotten more attention in all of history.  It’s beauty, and it’s power are unparalleled.  Jesus’ words deserve as much art as exposition.  They are from another world–perhaps [...]