DAILY READING John 13 REFLECTION   THE END By Katie Borden “Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” (v.1) …to the end. This sentence might be one of my favorites in all of the Gospel of John. This phrase sets up a chapter of scripture in which we are given a front-row seat into the events of the evening before Jesus’ death, and how his love for his beloved children is expressed in all of it, all the way to “the end.” From washing the disciples’ feet like a...

DAILY READING Matthew 8:1-4 REFLECTION   The Reverse of the Curse By Katie Borden I know a third grade teacher who once had his students participate in an experiment to teach them about the spread of germs… using glitter . One morning, my friend dabbed what seemed like an insignificant amount of glitter into one singular student’s hand, and because third graders don’t keep their hands to themselves, by the end of the day there was glitter everywhere . As in, they were still finding glitter in...

DAILY READING Colossians 3:12-17 REFLECTION   CHRIST-SHAPED VISION By Katie Borden The passage we hear today from Colossians is filled with a lot of incredibly helpful instructions on how to live a Christ-shaped life. In fact, many of the kids (and adults) who join us each summer for Vacation Bible School have several verses of this passage memorized because of the incredible gift of Bible memory verse songs! But taken as a whole, this passage speaks to more than just how individuals should...