In this fourth installment of our "I Believe..." series exploring the Apostle's Creed, we see, amongst other things, why a mid-level political bureaucrat lives on in the most basic…
Read MoreIn this fourth installment of our "I Believe..." series exploring the Apostle's Creed, we see, amongst other things, why a mid-level political bureaucrat lives on in the most basic…
Read MoreIn this fourth installment of our "I Believe..." series exploring the Apostle's Creed, we see, amongst other things, why a mid-level political bureaucrat lives on in the most basic…
Read MoreThe third installment of our series on the Apostle’s Creed, “I Believe…,” this week’s sermon points to the realities of what we proclaim as we say that we believe in…
Read MoreIn the second of our series on the Apostle’s Creed, this week’s message gets us into the first part of the creed - “I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth…” - and the understanding that any confession of faith of the believer has to…
Read More…[W]we found that, indeed, the text reminds the faithful the day of the Lord is coming soon…[R]ather than presenting this as a dire warning…[W]e saw it as a word of inspiration to the people of the church universal and eternal that there is still time to…
Read More…[W]e discover in some of the final words recorded in Revelation that hoping for heaven just to see loved ones again is at best incomplete, and pretty much not rooted in scripture…
Read MoreThrough the words of this passage, we are confronted with the question of who or what it is that we…
Read MoreLooking at Revelation from another perspective, however, finds one discovering not a graphic, scary, fear-mongering…
Read MoreAs we, yet again, approach this story on another Easter Sunday, is there anything new to discover? Well...
Read MoreLuke's narrative of the events of that great day almost 2,000 years ago contains words that are every bit as essential to our faith today as they were when first recorded. As we eavesdrop on Luke's conversation with…
Read MoreLuke's narrative of the events of that great day almost 2,000 years ago contains words that are every bit as essential to our faith today as they were when first recorded. As we eavesdrop on Luke's conversation with…
Read MoreGiven all that, one can justifiably understand some of the religious folk being fearful of Christ's life when they bring him the message that Herod wants him killed. Jesus, of course, does not respond with fear, but instead…
Read MoreUnderstanding we are in a season of self-reflection, sacrifice, and prayerful study, this week the text will challenge us all to not reflect so much on the back-and-forth that Jesus has with the devil; rather, we may just discover…
Read MoreThe ritual of tonight's service lends itself to the conflicting emotions of comfort and brutal honesty - comfort in knowing that we are engaging in a task that has it's roots in our faith going way back before Christ…
Read MoreThese few verses provide us with a stirring reminder of the most essential characteristics we MUST exhibit if we are to be people who abhor, subvert, and seek to eliminate hatred in…
Read MoreIn his letter to one of the world's earliest churches, one that was not perfect, one that was in an environment where you could make the case the world was hostile to its existence, Paul was having none of the idea there are people who are more or less important…
Read MoreONE CAN BE FORGIVEN IF BY THE TIME THEY GET TO THE END OF A RATHER LONG DOCUMENT THEIR ATTENTION TO DETAIL HAS waned a little since there has already been
Read MoreOne of the more unfortunate things about how the Bible has been translated into English over the years is there are more than a few words in the original languages that have come to us in English as 'love.'
Read MoreIn his letter to one of the world's earliest churches, one that was not perfect, one that was in an environment where you could make the case the world was hostile to its existence, Paul was having none of the idea…
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