This article is written by guest contributor, Christopher J. Richmann.

Sometimes, we get prayer dementia. We can’t remember what we were going to pray for, we can’t put the words together, and, frustrated, there is nothing we can do but sigh and groan.

It would serve us well to embrace the beauty of our diversity within the unity of the body of Christ.

We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.

God's faithfulness is constant and consistent. It knows no season. His love for us doesn't fade with the summer sun.

While the world is full of horizons and endpoints, for Christians, there is always tomorrow, and there are people in that tomorrow waiting for us as we wait for them.

While so much remains the same week after week, the past years have taught me how much changes. And I kind of like it.

Reading, understanding, and studying Scripture is a life-long process of contemplation in conversation with others.

Here is the foundational cure for the evils of racism in human society, faith in Christ as definitive for racial identification.

As we close out an old year, Saint Silvester can remind us God is the Lord of history and He has used and is using even people whose lives sink largely or totally into obscurity to keep the confession of our faith in Jesus Christ alive.

Ultimately, you are not your problems. You are not your weaknesses. You are not your sins. You are sanctified. You are the recipient of God’s abundant, forgiving, amazing grace.

God made us to live together, to live in harmony with each other, to serve and sacrifice for the health and well-being of each other. When we hurt one part, we injure the whole body. And, as the philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, wrote, “What injures the hive, injures the bee."