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…
The Fifth Sunday in Lent March 21, 2021
The Fifth Sunday in Lent March 21, 2021 Hebrews 5:7-10 The Value of Suffering! During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him…
The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 14, 2021
The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 14, 2021 Ephesians 2:4-10 Created by Grace for Grace! But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable…
The Third Sunday in Lent March 7, 2021
The Third Sunday in Lent March 7, 2021 1 Corinthians 1:22-25 We Proclaim Christ Crucified! Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength. …