When something is precious to you, you don’t just discard it when it is broken. In fact, if an item is precious to you, you may go to great expense to repair it. God is that way with us. God sees us in our brokenness and is willing to make a deep personal sacrifice to […]

Physical trauma can create deep inner wounds and turmoil.. Even after the body is healed, the mind and emotion may need more time. In today’s bible story we encounter a woman who endured twelve years of suffering. She lost all that she had trying to get well and was worse, not better. Her body was […]

When something is shattered oftentimes it becomes scattered as well. Glass that shows up on a beach may have started many miles away and the other bits and pieces could be almost anywhere. Over this past year, we have been scattered, at times isolated and cut off from one another. Being scattered can be lonely […]

Last week we heard the story of a leper being healed by Jesus. Today we hear the story of someone on the complete opposite extreme of life, a roman Centurion pleading with Jesus to heal his servant. Though the worlds apart on the surface, their stories are shockingly similar. Why? Because at the end of […]

This Ash Wednesday Worship was jointly produced by: Wynne Presbyterian Church, Wynne Arkansas First Presbyterian Church, Walnut Ridge, Arkansas First Presbyterian Church, Jonesboro, Arkansas Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church, Forrest City, Arkansas

News flash – There is a judge and deliverer…and it’s not us. You will learn in today’s sermon, the last in our four part series, that God is not only holding your life, he is holding everyone else’s. The good news is that while we are called to love them, it’s not our job or […]

Life is full of seemingly contradictory and confusing moments. Why does God sometimes seem to choose to heal one person and ignore another when both are faithful people, fervently prayed for. When we confront mysteries like this, what are we to do? Psalm 147 offers us a glimpse into the nature of that in part […]

How do you react when life gets tough? In Psalm 62, David offer us an example of what it looks like to live faithfully in the face of adversity. He also offers an instructive word of what to do and warnings of what not to do, or more accurately, what not to trust. This sermon […]

Your life may not feel precious or significant at times. But in God’s hands it takes on immense value because he is a master of using a person just as they are to complete a much bigger picture. Rev. John Arnold shares an analogy of the gospel being like a great quilt. The individual pieces, […]