Trinity Sunday June 12, 2022
Trinity Sunday June 12, 2022 John 16:12-15 The Triune God is the God Who Saved Us! “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what…
Pentecost Sunday June 5, 2022
Pentecost Sunday June 5, 2022 Genesis 11:1-9 Pentecost Takes the Babbling Out of Babel! Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,…
The Seventh Sunday of Easter May 29, 2022
The Seventh Sunday of Easter May 29, 2022 Revelation 22:12-17, 20 I Am Ready to Go Home! “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the…
The Fifth Sunday of Easter May 15, 2022
The Fifth Sunday of Easter May 15, 2022 John 13:31-35 Love One Another— As I Have Loved You! When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews,…
Good Shepherd Sunday/Mother’s Day May 8, 2022
The Fourth Sunday of Easter Mother’s Day May 8, 2022 John 10:22-30 Our Good Shepherd Is Our “Safe Person”! Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon’s Colonnade. The Jews gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in…
The Third Sunday of Easter May 1, 2022
The Third Sunday of Easter May 1, 2022 Acts 9:1-20 From Foe to Friend— Purely By God’s Grace Alone! Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly…
Easter Sunday April 17, 2022
Easter Festival Service April 17, 2022 I Corinthians 15:1-11 Celebrate the True Meaning of Easter! Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died…
Palm Sunday April 10, 2022
Palm Sunday April 10, 2022 Philippians 2:5-11 Our Journey Through Lent— It is a Journey of Both Humility & Exaltation Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even…
The Fifth Sunday in Lent April 3, 2022
The Fifth Sunday in Lent April 3, 2022 Philippians 3:7-14 Our Journey Through Lent— It is a Journey of Confidence! What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith…
The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 27, 2022
The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 27, 2022 Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 Our Journey Through Lent— It is a Journey of Restoration Now the tax collectors and “sinners” were all gathering around to hear him. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Then Jesus told them his parable: “There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of…