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First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Douglass, KS

YOGA MS/HS Youth Group - Wednesday's 5:45-7:00
Wednesday Night Bible Study - 2nd & 4th Wednesday's @ 7:00pm
Community Munch & Mingle - 3rd Wednesday @ 6:30pm

Sunday Services
10:00 - Bible Study
11:00 - Worship Service & Children's Worship & Wonder

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https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=24216c39-ba4e-4d5a-9655-983f3900a412 Sunday School - Sunday's @ 10:00am
Praise & Worship - Sunday's @ 11:00am
WASP (Wednesday After School Program) - Wednesday's 3:30-4:30
All elementary students are invited to join us.

06/15/2026

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June 14 | Bible in a Year: Ezra 9-10; Acts 1
Serving Side by Side

“Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work. Nehemiah 2:18
READ Nehemiah 2:17-18; 3:6-12

Serendipity Bookstore, a popular spot in Chelsea, Michigan, needed to expand. The owner found a building twice the size just a block away. She wanted to make the move quickly instead of closing the store for days and boxing up all the books. So she requested help from the community. More than three hundred people showed up! They stood shoulder to shoulder, forming a human conveyor belt, and passed the books from one person to the next, moving 9,100 books in just under two hours. The owner said, “[The bookstore] is really a part of the community, and [the people] have ownership.” They all enthusiastically worked side by side.
When Nehemiah, a Jew who was the trusted cupbearer to the Persian king, learned that the wall surrounding Jerusalem lay in shambles, he cried out for God’s guidance (Nehemiah 1:3-11). The Babylonians had destroyed the walls in 587 bc. After investigating, Nehemiah recruited help from the community. He said to the Jewish leaders, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins . . . . Come, let us rebuild the wall” (2:17). Chapter 3 describes how leaders and citizens alike willingly repaired the section of the wall that was right in front of each one. They worked side by side.
We too can impact our community by serving together under God’s direction and in His strength.
By Anne Cetas
REFLECT & PRAY
What are your God-given abilities? How might He be calling you to work side by side with others?
Please open my eyes, dear God, to those around me so I might serve You in ways that help my community.

06/12/2026

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June 12 | Bible in a Year: Ezra 3-5; John 20
Seasons of Love

At just the right time . . . Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8
READ Romans 5:6-8

Flowers don’t have to be in bloom to be beautiful, says famed landscape designer Piet Oudolf. Even in the dead of winter, the Dutch gardener’s award-winning designs are known for their stunning appeal. “Beauty is in so many things you wouldn’t think of,” Oudolf says, although some may disagree. “The moment you say I love plants that are dead [dormant],” he said, “then you have a problem because people don’t like dead plants.”
Oudolf’s appreciation of plants’ life cycles echoes a core spiritual principle: While we were dead in our sins, God still loved us. “You see,” explained the apostle Paul, “at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6). Paul continued, “God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (v. 😎.
Jesus chose disciples with flaws. He ate meals with known sinners. He healed outcasts. Oudolf, likewise, is “interested in plants not only for their flowers, but also for their personality”—seeing beauty “in things that, on first sight, are not beautiful.”
As bearers of God’s image, we show Him to the world in how we relate to Him and each other. Planted in His love, we’re anointed by our Father to bloom anew in Him—once-dead sinners showing His beauty to a world longing for a glimpse of Him.
By Patricia Raybon
REFLECT & PRAY
In what season of your life did God call you? How can you spiritually bloom so others can see His image in you?
You called me when I was dead in my sins, dear God. Thank You for saving me to bloom anew in You.

06/10/2026

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June 10 | Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 34-36; John 19:1-22
Our Future with Christ

The old order of things has passed away. Revelation 21:4
READ Revelation 21:1-5

Visiting Switzerland had been my dad’s lifelong dream. After his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, my mom decided to go with him while he was still physically able. “One day, with the snow blowing around us on Mount Titlis,” she said, “I saw the profound joy in your father’s face. It was the joy of a dream come true.” Later, however, my mom’s tears flowed when my dad asked, “Where are we again?”
My dad may have forgotten he was in Switzerland, but “the visit was worth it,” my mom said. “At least for one moment, he knew, and he was happy.”
God reassures us of a time when joy will never be taken away from us again. Because of our hope in Jesus, we can look forward to “a new heaven and a new earth” (Revelation 21:1), where we’ll be free from sin and death (Romans 5:12). In this perfect world, God will make “everything new” (Revelation 21:5). “ ‘He will wipe every tear from [our] eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (v. 4). Whatever suffering we experience now is temporary. God promises that one day “the former things will not be remembered” (Isaiah 65:17). They will forever be no more.
I know that one day, when we’re with God (Revelation 21:3), I’ll see profound joy on Daddy’s face. This time, it will stay.
By Karen Huang
REFLECT & PRAY
How does the hope of your future dwelling place give you hope now? What do you look forward to seeing there?
Dear Jesus, I praise You. One day, You’ll make all things new.

06/08/2026

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June 8 | Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 30-31; John 18:1-18
Reciprocal Generosity

I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. Philippians 4:18
READ Philippians 4:10-19

When Melanie began having regular headaches, her doctors discovered she had a benign tumor in her pituitary gland. The tumor was about the size of a plum and was surgically removed in 2003 and again in 2006 when it recurred. Then in 2017, when it came back a third time, Melanie underwent radiation treatment instead, which caused her to lose her hair. Her twenty-seven-year-old son, Matt, decided to grow out his own hair to make a wig for her.
Matt’s selfless, loving act illustrates how one person’s abilities and resources can supply the needs of another person or group. Paul highlights the beauty of such reciprocal generosity in his letter to the Philippians. The believers in Philippi had shared in his “troubles” and “sent . . . aid more than once when [he] was in need” (Philippians 4:14, 16). Having received their gifts, Paul recognized that God had provided amply for his needs.
Our willingness to share with one another is often the conduit of God’s provision in our lives. Sometimes we’re in a position to give of our time, talent, or treasure; other times we’re in need ourselves and must rely on the support of another. Through His Spirit working in us, our gifts are “pleasing to God” and a manifestation of our shared life in the body of Christ (v. 18).
By Kirsten Holmberg
REFLECT & PRAY
When has God supplied your needs through another person? How might He provide for someone else through your generous giving today?
Father God, thank You for providing for me. Please help me share what You’ve given me as I seek to cheerfully and generously help others.

06/05/2026

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June 5 | Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 23-24; John 15
Running to God in Prayer

From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. Jonah 2:1
READ Jonah 2:1-10

One moment Adrián Simancas was kayaking in the Strait of Magellan in Chile with his father. The next, the twenty-four-year-old was engulfed in the mouth of a humpback whale. “I thought I was dead,” Adrián told a news outlet. After a few seconds, the whale released Adrián into the frigid waters. His life vest caused him to float to the water’s surface, and his father helped him to safety.
The Old Testament prophet Jonah also had an encounter with a large sea creature. Jonah refused to follow God’s directive to preach a message of repentance to the Israelites’ enemies, the Ninevites, so he boarded a ship in the opposite direction of Nineveh. When the ship got caught in a storm, Jonah convinced the crew to throw him overboard (Jonah 1:11-12, 15). “Now the Lord provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights” (v. 17). Jonah went from fleeing from God to crying out to Him: “From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God” (2:1).
God heard Jonah and rescued him (v. 10). Then Jonah preached to the Ninevites, and they repented (3:8-10).
If God could hear Jonah’s plea from inside a big fish, He can hear us and rescue us from wherever we are. Instead of running from God, let’s run to Him in prayer, knowing that He will answer us when we cry out to Him.
By Nancy Gavilanes
REFLECT & PRAY
Why do you sometimes run from God? How can you run to Him today?
Dear God, thank You for the rescue You alone provide.

06/04/2026

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June 4 | Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 21-22; John 14
Freedom in God’s Love

If we confess our sins, [God] . . . will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
READ 1 John 1:5-9; 2:7-10

If you’ve ever heard the expression “albatross around my neck”—a phrase referring to a tiresome burden—you’ve heard an allusion to English poet Samuel Coleridge’s famous poem “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In the poem, a sailor shoots and kills a harmless, friendly albatross. The crew believes the mariner’s cruel deed curses their voyage and forces him to wear the dead bird around his neck as punishment.
Are there regrets in your life that feel like a heavy weight around your neck? All of us have moments we’d do anything to take back. It can feel like we’re cursed to carry the weight of our guilt and regret forever.
Yet God’s grace can free our hearts from even the most painful regret. We all have sin (1 John 1:8, 10), but when we honestly confess our burdens to God, we’re promised he “will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (v. 9). As His grace rushes in, His light and love can flow through us (2:10), freeing us to love those around us (3:14).
In Coleridge’s poem, the tormented mariner also eventually experiences this grace. When love for God’s creation rushes into his heart and compels him to pray, the albatross falls off his neck, vanishing forever “like lead into the sea.”
By Monica La Rose
REFLECT & PRAY
What can feel like an “albatross” around your neck? What does it mean for you to accept God’s grace for your guilt?
Dear God, thank You that the guilt I carry doesn’t exclude me from experiencing Your beauty and grace. Please help me find freedom in Your love today.

06/03/2026

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June 3 | Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 19-20; John 13:21-38
The Power of Music

David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul. 1 Samuel 16:23
READ 1 Samuel 16:14-23

On November 21, 1915, the hope of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his twenty-seven crew members sank, along with their ship Endurance, into the darkness below the Antarctic ice. They were stranded thousands of miles from home. Later, the crew shared several things that aided their survival, including a banjo. Embarking on their brutal trek, Leonard Hussey (the expedition’s meteorologist) was the only person allowed more than two pounds of personal gear. He was allowed to bring his twelve-pound Windsor banjo. “It’s vital mental medicine,” Shackleton told Hussey, “and we shall need it.” The crew’s journals explained the power of Hussey’s music. “The banjo does . . . supply brain food,” wrote one sailor. Another reflected on “Hussey’s indispensable banjo.”
The Bible presents music as one of God’s immense gifts, a way His healing and comfort enter the human heart. In the tragic story of King Saul, we hear how (due to his disobedience) he was oppressed by an “evil spirit” (1 Samuel 16:14). And what did Saul’s attendants believe the king needed to provide relief? Music. So they found young David with his harp: “David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him” (v. 23).
Music offers more than mere entertainment. It can bring joy, renew hope, and comfort weary souls. It’s truly one of God’s powerful gifts.
By Winn Collier
REFLECT & PRAY
What encouragement has music offered you? How has it deepened your relationship with God?
Dear God, thank You for the gift of music!

06/02/2026

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June 2 | Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 17-18; John 13:1-20
Our Part, God’s Part

It is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Philippians 2:13
READ Philippians 2:12-13, 3:12-16

In Singapore, the government encourages people to support good causes by donation-matching. It “tops up” donations to specific charities by contributing an equal amount or more. By effectively multiplying people’s contributions, it hopes to encourage them to become more involved in charitable giving.
This two-pronged approach reminds me of how believers in Jesus are called to God’s standards of holiness in our discipleship journey. In his letter to the Philippians, Paul urges them “to work out [their] salvation” (2:12) and “press on” (3:12, 14). At the same time, he stresses that “it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose” (2:13).
Believers in Jesus aren’t made right with God by good works or performance. But there is an idea of partnership in our spiritual growth. It requires heart and effort on our part, yet we do not do it by human strength. Having saved us by grace, God calls us to be holy—set apart for Him—and we respond in sincerity and gratitude. As we seek to obey and please Him, He enables and helps us to do so. He shows us when we go wrong (Philippians 3:15), gives us strength to resist temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13), and empowers us to do what’s right in His eyes (Ephesians 2:10).
By Leslie Koh
REFLECT & PRAY
What are your biggest challenges in seeking to be faithful and pleasing to God? How can you rely more on the Holy Spirit’s strength?
Holy God, please help me to be holy and faithful in my journey, for I know that You desire me to be like Your Son Jesus.

05/29/2026

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May 29 | Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 7-9; John 11:1-29
Waiting on God

Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Psalm 27:14
READ Psalm 27:7-14

As a little girl, I got so excited when I’d see special signs appear on the side of the road. I thought colorful signs meant my family had arrived at the popular amusement park we were driving to. I’d joyfully start gathering my things, only to be disappointed to see more signs and have to wait even longer before we reached the park. Eventually I realized those signs announced that visitors were getting closer but were still miles away.
Like an excited child wondering “are we there yet?” we can also be impatient and anxious to arrive at our next destination.
Waiting for God to move in our lives, or to rescue us from our trials, can be challenging. David was facing much adversity, which he mentions throughout Psalm 27. Yet he still placed his hope and trust in God and waited for Him to respond. David didn’t know how long it would take for God to act, but he knew God would help him. “I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living” (v. 13).
It may take longer than we’d like to experience our breakthrough, but let’s take courage in these words: “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord” (v. 14). As we turn to the Psalms and the rest of Scripture for encouragement, we can take comfort in knowing God is working even while we wait.
By Nancy Gavilanes
REFLECT & PRAY
Why is it hard sometimes to wait for God’s answer? How can you remain hopeful as you wait?
Dear God, thank You that You’re working even while I wait.

05/27/2026

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May 27 | Bible in a Year: 2 Chronicles 1-3; John 10:1-23
Joy from Jesus

I will continue to rejoice. Philippians 1:18
READ Philippians 1:18-21

Nancy’s cancer treatment caused so many ulcers in her mouth and throat that she couldn’t even swallow a piece of bread. She had to rely on milk to fill her stomach for many painful days. The only thing that brought a smile to the sixty-year-old’s face was the joy of knowing Jesus—and her grandsons. Being with them each week helped her to not dwell on her situation. “If not for the boys, I would have given up,” she said.
The apostle Paul also found joy in Jesus and others despite his difficulties. His joy came from Jesus and living for Him. Despite being imprisoned (Philippians 1:13), he found strength to encourage others. He spoke of the joy that came from partnering in sharing the good news about Jesus, and from knowing what awaited him upon death (vv. 3-5, 18, 20). That confidence enabled him to say, “To me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” (v. 21).
Paul could rejoice because Jesus was his life. His sense of contentment and security didn’t come from any possession or situation but from knowing he belonged to Christ. Thus, in a letter written in the worst of circumstances, he could say in Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!”
May we find joy in Jesus, who loves us, cares for us, and gives us strength to rejoice in any circumstance.
By Leslie Koh
REFLECT & PRAY
What challenging situation are you facing now? What difference does it make to know Jesus is always with you?
Please grant me the strength to press on and keep my eyes on You, dear Jesus, for Your presence brings me joy.

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