I was very, very encouraged when I received this email from Pastor Tammy Swanson-Draheim from First Covenant Church in Mason City, Iowa.
I am so proud of Tammy and the congregation for following through on the Veritas challenge to create a behavioral covenant. She prefers to call it a “relational” covenant, which is a wonderful adaptation [...]
And it will be said: "Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people." For this is what the high and exalted One says -- he who lives forever, whose name is holy: "I live in a high and holy place, but also with those who are contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite." Isaiah 57:14-16
