1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was theContinue reading “Beginning with Jesus”
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A Faithful 2020 Begins Now
21 Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. Matthew 2:21 NRSV Faithfulness is a learned trait. It is like a muscle in which the more it is used the stronger it becomes. You wouldn’t think about running a marathon without proper training [at least IContinue reading “A Faithful 2020 Begins Now”
Are you saved? Sermon Excerpt from February 10, 2019
I preached on salvation yesterday. It was a great reminder for me of the centrality of the Gospel Message to our life and our communities. Allow me to boil the sermon down to a paragraph and then add some comments. Faith in Christ’s life, death, resurrection, ascension and impending return is the basis for salvation.Continue reading “Are you saved? Sermon Excerpt from February 10, 2019”
Let’s take love off the greeting cards and put it into our lives
…the following is a sermon excerpt from February 3, 2019 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 1 Corinthians 13 was written to a group of Christians in Corinth who were struggling with unity. The fraying edges were showing and there was aContinue reading “Let’s take love off the greeting cards and put it into our lives”
All Things are Possible
“For God all things are possible.” Jesus said these words in the 19th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew. He acknowledged that for humanity this expression is not so, but in relation to God it is not only true but the reality in which God operates. God is in the business of bringing order toContinue reading “All Things are Possible”
