by Jessica Bolyard | Aug 21, 2012 | Faith, Fellowship
I love movies. I love the feeling of getting lost in a story that’s nothing like my own story line. There’s something in my anxious personality that relishes any chance I get to become engrossed in something far from my reality. Someone else’s story sometimes gives...
by Jessica Bolyard | Mar 27, 2012 | Faith
March 27, 2013 – This is an older post, published exactly one year ago. Since then, I have been on two more trips to Belize and have left more and more pieces of myself there. The same issues are weighing on my mind and my heart today, and in my homesickness...
by Jessica Bolyard | Mar 1, 2012 | Faith
Then He said to then all, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.” (Luke 9:23-24) There it is. The core of...
by Jessica Bolyard | Feb 9, 2012 | Faith, Fellowship
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work…Now you are the body of Christ, and...
by Jessica Bolyard | Dec 19, 2011 | Faith
As Jesus walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” Jesus told him, and Levi got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him. When the...