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Usually when we go to church during December, we learn that Christmas is about giving, not getting. Kids are going to go back to school after the holidays and the big question will be, “What did you get for Christmas?” A better question is, “What did you give for Christmas?” We look in Matthew 2…
Raquel Schors, CVCKids Director of Blast! “Once upon a time, a mother and her young son, Jack, lived together in a small cottage near a green wood. They were poor, but they managed to earn money from their milk cow…” Both of my children look up at me with wide eyes, completely enthralled from the…
by Joshua A. Littler, Former CVCYouth Intern Being a child is a natural part of life. Of course, this is nothing new. Everyone has a mother and a father, and despite our attempts to travel to Neverland, we all have to grow up sometime. Not everybody lives such a simplistic life, however. Many children across…
Recently, someone asked our staff how we teach people to study the Bible. We were asked, \"I have been heavily burdened with the fact that our churches are not teaching people how to study the bible for themselves or how important it is to study. I was pleased that Cuyahoga Valley Church actually teaches the…
Sevenoseven, our young adult community, gets a lot of recent college grads that come back home after being away for college. Many people have grandiose ideas about what post-college life will be like. Your dream job, your dream social life, your dream relationship, and your perfect marriage. Easy as passing a Western Civ test, right?…
by Greta Smith, Administrative Assistant, Community Life One of my take-aways from a recent women’s conference was the speaker’s encouragement for us to “choose to be remembered for how you lived”. The speaker went on to say that for many years, she has worn the same fragrance. Whenever family members encounter that fragrance somewhere, their…
I have been recently thinking about revival. I have been burdened to pray and seek the One that sends revival to His church. Let one of my teachers, Richard Owen Roberts, teach you on this important matter: \"God has given gifts to men according to his own will and purpose. Ordinary gifts, exercised by ordinary…
That title is a quote from the great spiritual leader, John Owen. When it comes to killing sin, for every believer, there\'s something true about us that we either don\'t know or fail to remember. Either way, we\'re beat. And sin wins. But when we know and remember the truths about our union with Christ…
by Leigh-Ann Brisbin,Director of Women’s LifeGroups “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105 Have you ever thought about what the dark is like? A few evenings ago I laid in bed thinking about that very thought. My daughter woke me up in the middle of the night…
by Denise Petek, CVCKids Minister My son Nathan and I were going to dinner a few months back and had an odd experience on our way. There was a back-up of traffic, and as we inched up, we saw that there were a bunch of baby ducklings in the road. Someone was out of their…
by Bill Morgan, CVCYouth LifeGroup Leader I recently had lunch with an old friend. He and I used to attend the same church, and both of us had large families. From the outside looking in, we were both solid in our faith and our families were in good order. Circumstances led us in different directions…
by Clay Myatt, College Student and Former CVC Intern The Bible is crystal clear in stating the Christian life cannot be lived alone. It is meant to be lived in community where we can be daily encouraged and, if necessary, rebuked so we’re not “hardened by the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13). However, I have…
