Vera Baptist Church

05/31/2026

04/20/2026

Ed Broaddus was preacher lots came to hear him preach again

04/03/2026

Today is Good Friday…
and everything feels heavy

Not quiet in a peaceful way
but quiet like something is missing
like the world is holding its breath

Because this is the day
love didn’t look victorious

It looked like loss

It looked like a mother watching her son suffer
like friends standing at a distance
not knowing what to do
not able to stop it

It looked like prayers that felt unanswered
like hope slipping through fingers
like the kind of grief
that makes your chest ache

And He didn’t stop it

Jesus didn’t step down
He didn’t call angels
He didn’t rewrite the moment

He stayed

And I think that’s what undoes me the most

Because He knew

He knew how it would feel
He knew what it would cost
He knew the weight of it

And still

He chose to stay

For the ones who would run
For the ones who would doubt
For the ones who would forget

For me

So today isn’t light

It’s not pretty
It’s not easy

It’s the kind of day
that reminds you death is real

that loss is real

that sometimes you stand there
loving someone
and there is nothing you can do to save them

But this day

this painful
heavy
unbearable day

is not pointless

Because this is the day
love proved
it would go all the way

All the way into suffering
All the way into death
All the way into the grave

And if love was willing to go that far

then maybe

just maybe

it’s strong enough
to meet us there too

Today is Good Friday

And it doesn’t feel good

But it is

Because Jesus didn’t walk away

He stayed.

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03/08/2026

Sunday Daylight savings time blessings. Why do they call it savings time when we actually lose time ? What are you doing with your time today ? Ephesians 5:15-17 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Are you asking God for his time or just using your time ? May you find time to attend church today. May you realize that God is there with you all the time. God bless; I pray for you enough.

03/07/2026

Morning blessings on this Saturated Saturday . Imagine a sponge. You toss it into a bucket of water and as you lift it back out, you notice every pore of the sponge has been completely saturated with the water. What if our lives were like that with the Word of God? What if God was in every aspect of your life ? Well he is if you allow him to be. God can and will revive your weary soul. Jeremiah 31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.
God consistently promises to be there for us in every way. He holds nothing back and soaks our soul with a constant infilling of Him. His love is an all encompassing breath of sweetness and it keeps us flowing in His Spirit.
He embraces us with His presence and in this embrace He flushes out the toxins which invade our mind our will and emotions and rejuvenates us with strength, encouragement and peace.
It is a picture of water being poured into our soul and saturating it with abundance. God bless; I pray for you enough.

03/05/2026

Thankful Thursday morning blessings. Romans 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Paul declares in no uncertain terms that the universe belongs to God, and we're simply living in it, and part of it. He builds on the question asked in the previous verse: Who has given anything to God valuable enough that God owes him something back? The answer is nobody. God doesn't owe us anything. In this verse, Paul explains why. Everything that is in the universe came from God to start with. He is the Creator and the source of all that is good. How could we ever give Him anything He doesn't already have? All things are through God. This means that not only is God the source of all things, He holds them together. He sustains everything that is. He is active and present in the work of keeping the universe running. All things that exist continue through Him. All things are to Him or for Him. In other words, everything that exists has been made for God's purposes. Nothing exists that doesn't serve His divine plan and purpose for all things. As limited, created people, our feeble minds will never be able to fully grasp the mind of God. The proper response, when we realize how beyond our understanding He is, is praise and worship. God bless; I pray for you enough.

03/04/2026

Wrestling Wednesday Morning Blessings. Genesis 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
Here Jacob is wrestling with God since in latter verses it states about him seeing the face of God. We have all wrestled or are wrestling with God’s will for our life. We also wrestle with our own self will. We must not resist his will only accept it. For his plans are far better than what our feeble minds may fathom. I still wrestle with his will yet when I trust in him his blessings are abundant. God bless; I pray for you enough.