Run to God. I Kings 19 contains the remarkable journey of Elijah the prophet from miraculous success to serious sadness. We will be reminded of God’s deep care when the “journey is too much for you” and how to hear God’s still small voice of promise and hope.
We will gather to worship God and learn from the Apostle Pauls’s letter to the church in Rome. We have been slowly moving through the magnificent chapter 12 and will look closely at verses 3-8. Our Old Testament example illustrating Sober Self Assessment is Moses.
Generous with God’s Grace. What if our new year’s resolutions focused on others instead of ourselves? Jesus’ parable of the Unmerciful Servant in Matthew 18:21-35 challenges us to be generous with God’s grace in 2023.
How are Christmas (celebrating the birth of Jesus) and the Fourth of July (celebrating the birth of a nation) the same and different? While we still grieve not being able to gather on Christmas Eve or Christmas day, we look forward with eager anticipation to this Sunday as we gather to worship our great God […]
As we gather, we will celebrate the four great songs of Luke’s gospel. In music and word, we will give thanks to God for the gift of his Son and discover what God is doing when he comes in person to the world. Our texts will be from Luke 1 and 2.
A Weary World Rejoices: TROUBLED. We will remember the reason for the season when we are weary from troubled hearts. This Sunday we continue the season of Advent that calls us “to meditate on the three “comings” of Christ: his birth at Bethlehem, his coming into our lives today, and his final coming at the […]
A Weary World Rejoices: EXHAUSTION. We will remember the reason for the season when we are weary from exhaustion. This Sunday we continue the season of Advent that calls us “to meditate on the three “comings” of Christ: his birth at Bethlehem, his coming into our lives today, and his final coming at the end […]
A Weary World Rejoices: Worry. We will remember the reason for the season when we are weary of worry. This Sunday we continue the season of Advent that calls us “to meditate on the three “comings” of Christ: his birth at Bethlehem, his coming into our lives today, and his final coming at the end […]
A Weary World Rejoices. We will remember the reason for the season when we are weary of busyness. This Sunday we begin the season of Advent that calls us “to meditate on the three “comings” of Christ: his birth at Bethlehem, his coming into our lives today, and his final coming at the end of […]
Paul’s Letter to the Romans: The Fifth Gospel. “Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). We will look to the life of Daniel in the Old Testament (Daniel 1) as an illustration of the truth of Romans 12:2.