Posts by Becca Singley

For the past month-and-a-half Christine and I have been working on our Christmas Eve Family Service.  Not only contemplating how Covid will make it different this year, but what we want to talk about and focus on, and how kids and students might be able to be involved.  This has been a somewhat new experience for me, since I am usually pretty strict on when I let myself begin to celebrate holidays.  I don’t like to listen to Christmas music…

At the end of each school year I read the following passage to our 8th graders:  “Above all, trust in the slow work of God.  We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages.  We are impatient of being in the way of something unknown, something new.  And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability –…

For the past 12 weeks I’ve been immersed in some of my final theology courses to finish up my master’s degree, and it has been so good (I wasn’t sure I would ever say that about theology classes, but I can now!).  I have been pushed to think deeply about aspects of my faith that I had previously pushed aside or hadn’t even been aware of.  I’ve reflected on the incredible depth of what the scriptures say, of who our…

The Bible is full of statements about what God does for His people, it details what can happen in us when we come to Him and seek Him.  Two words that are constantly found within these passages are renew and restore.  Throughout the Psalms, into the Prophets and the New Testament Epistles comes the promise that God renews and restores His people.  In seasons of brokenness and weariness He renews us.  He brings new life, and through the work of…

I have found myself needing to remember the truth in this passage this week, I pray it brings you encouragement and hope as well. “May you be strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the…

This is a Holy weekend.  One that is full of reflection of what our Savior has done for his people and acknowledgement that His work is continuing through His Spirit. Most years as we approach this weekend I find myself rushing from Good Friday to Resurrection Sunday, often overlooking the Saturday between.  But in this different space we’ve been in, I have found myself reflecting on what this day would have been like for the disciples.  It had to have…