What are the first things Jesus does after the voice speaks which drives the disciples to their knees? Those things become the very pattern of the Gospel that we Christians live.
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If you knew the world would end tomorrow how would you live today? Jesus in Luke 21 reminds us that “when these things are about to take place, stand up, lift up your heads for your redemption is near.”
Jesus uses the word, “abide”, eight times in our lesson for today. When we abide in someone or something, we live together. As we abide in someone or something, it is not in a virtual way, for the branches of the vine would not survive unless they were physically connected. As we abide with each […]
This is the first Sunday in 2015. It is fitting then today that we remember that in Christ the Word became flesh and lived among us, and this Living Word was the light of all people. I pray that in the coming year we might be able to listen for the address of the Living […]
On this Christ the King Sunday, we are reminded once again to strive to live into God’s Kingdom more fully, where the hungry are fed, the thirsty are given something to drink, the strangers are welcomed, the naked are clothed, the sick are cared for, and the prisoners are visited, knowing that as we do […]
We know that Christ was the Son of the Living God. Therefore we know what God is like because of Jesus. This being the case, we then know that we have a loving, grace-filled God who has compassion for his whole creation. Who could ask for anything more!
As we continue to journey through this Advent season, may we remember to be Christ in the world. As our tempers grow short as we sit in holiday traffic or when we can’t find a parking space at the store, or when the line for the register is a mile long, may we remember that […]
Today we have the Sadducees questioning Jesus about the resurrection because they did not believe in it. So they pose a situation to Jesus that uses the law of Moses to show how a woman could have been married several times and then they want to know in the resurrection whose wife she would be. […]
Today in our Gospel lesson we have a woman whom people didn’t want to see or hear who had an important message to share. She does not speak a word in our Gospel, and yet she shares volumes with those who are with Jesus that day. She is able to show by her actions how […]
After talking to Jesus, the woman at the well is amazed and believes that it is the messiah, yet Jesus is such a gift to her she almost finds it hard to believe. And yet she cannot contain her excitement. This woman who was shut off from her world pushes her way back in to […]
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