During our United Methodist Women celebration, Judith Nedel of the Rebecca Circle delivered this message about finding true happiness and the scriptural basis for living a life filled with blessings.

What is God’s calling for your life? How do you discern, and follow, that call?

How do we come to faith—a personal faith that is real and that is our own?

What is the nature of evil? Why does it exist? What do we do about it? Like the first disciples, we are called to “cast out demons” today.

Christ brings triumph over the power of evil. The battle comes to focus on the cross and culminates in the resurrection. Evil may yet rage in the world, but its power over us is broken, when we put our faith in Christ.

People do not generally decide to be evil. They are drawn into it, they deceive themselves, and imagine they are OK when they are doing great wrong. We see the pattern again and again—in social movements from the Nazis to present-day Islamist terrorists, and in the behavior of individuals. The