Trinity Sunday May 30, 2021
Trinity Sunday May 30, 2021 Isaiah 6:1-8 O Holy Trinity— How Great Thou Art! In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the LORD seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is…
Pentecost Sunday May 23, 2021
Pentecost Sunday May 23, 2021 John 14:25-27 God the Holy Spirit is Your Counselor! “All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts…
The Seventh Sunday of Easter May 16, 2021
The Seventh Sunday of Easter May 16, 2021 1 John 4:13-21 God’s Love Has Goals for Us! We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and…
Easter 6/Mother’s Day May 9, 2021
The Sixth Sunday of Easter May 9, 2021 Acts 11:19-26 God’s Children Make God’s Grace Visible! Now those who had been scattered by the persecution in connection with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, telling the message only to Jews. Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. The Lord’s hand was with them, and a…
The Fifth Sunday of Easter May 2, 2021
The Fifth Sunday of Easter May 2, 2021 1 John 3:16-24 How Will You Show Your Love? This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possession and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or…
The Fourth Sunday of Easter April 25, 2021
The Fourth Sunday of Easter April 25, 2021 1 John 3:1, 2 Live Who You Are! How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that…
The Third Sunday of Easter April 18, 2021
The Third Sunday of Easter April 18, 2021 Acts 4:8-12 Jesus Christ of Nazareth— The Most Powerful Name of All! Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of…
The Second Sunday of Easter April 11, 2021
The Second Sunday of Easter April 11, 2021 1 John 5:1-6 Easter’s Ongoing Victory! Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This is how we know that we love the children of God; by loving God and carrying out his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the…
Easter Sunday April 4, 2021
Easter Sunday April 4, 2021 John 20:19-23 Life-Giving Hands On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I…
Palm Sunday March 28, 2021
Palm Sunday March 28, 2021 Philippians 2:5-11 Strive to Have a Palm Sunday Attitude! 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 death on a cross! Therefore God…