A Personal Reformation
There are many different styles of preaching in the Church. I tend to lean towards what is known as expository preaching. I start on Monday by looking at the ...
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A Life of Service
When reading Scripture, I always have to remind myself that we have the entire picture of what is happening but that the Apostles, and those around them, did no...
We’ve Always Done it This Way
I can just see the exasperation on the face of Jesus as he is having this dialogue with his friends. He wants to go out fishing with them, but they have been o...
Joy and Judgement
When invitations to a great feat, like a wedding feast, were sent out the time was left off of the invitation. When everything for the feast was ready, servant...
Faith Without Works is Dead
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the wor...
The Great Refusal
The Gospel of Matthew 19:16-26 At that time, a young man came up to Jesus, kneeling and saying, “Good Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal l...
How to Forgive
Just like last week we need to back up a few verses to put this passage in the proper context. Starting with verse 21 Peter asks Jesus how many times we are to...
The Essential Faith
The Gospel of Matthew 17:14-23 At that time, a man came up to Him and kneeling before Him said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he...
Miracles Are All Around Us
The Gospel of Matthew 14:14-22 At that time, Jesus saw a great throng; and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, the disciples ...
Those Pesky Pharisees
Read John 9:1-38 A long time ago, in a writing class I was in, the teacher said that every good story has a hero and an antagonist. In the Gospel story ...