The Sixth Sunday of Easter May 5, 2024
The Sixth Sunday of Easter May 5, 2024 1 John 4:7-11, 19-21 Resurrection Reality: Jesus’ Focus is Love— Therefore So is Ours! 7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through…
The Fourth Sunday of Easter April 21, 2014
The Fourth Sunday of Easter Good Shepherd Sunday April 21, 2024 1 John 4:1-6 Resurrection Reality — The Risen Savior Provides Good Shepherds! 1Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that…
The Third Sunday of Easter April 14, 2024
The Third Sunday of Easter April 14, 2024 1 John 1:5-2:2 Resurrection Reality — We Have a Meaningful Message to Share! 5This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light,…
The Second Sunday of Easter April 4, 2024
The Second Sunday of Easter April 7, 2024 John 20:19-31 Resurrection Reality — The Living Lord Gives Proof and Peace! 19On 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!” 20After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. 21Again Jesus said, “Peace…
Easter Sunday March 31, 2024
Easter Sunday March 31, 2024 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Without the Resurrection— Faith is Futile! Dear fellow worshipers of our living Lord and Savior, He is risen! He is risen indeed! What if it’s not true? What if the women and the apostles were all lying? What if somebody did steal Jesus’ body and put it somewhere where no one would ever be able to find it? What if the accounts of Jesus’ physical resurrection that we…
Palm Sunday March 24, 2024
Palm Sunday March 24, 2024 Hebrews 12:1-3 Rethinking Religion— Rethinking Real Strength! 1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat…
The Fifth Sunday in Lent March 17, 2024
The Fifth Sunday in Lent March 17, 2024 John 12:20-33 Rethinking Religion— Rethinking Devoted Commitment! 20Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast. 21They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” 22Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus. 23Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24I tell you the…
Fourth Sunday in Lent March 10, 2024
The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 10, 2024 Ephesians 2:1-10 Rethinking Religion— Rethinking the Solution to Sin! 1As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature…
Third Sunday in Lent March 3, 2024
The Third Sunday in Lent March 3, 2024 John 2:13-22 Rethinking Religion— Rethinking the Worth of Worship! 13When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16To…
Second Sunday in Lent February 25, 2024
The Second Sunday in Lent February 25, 2024 Romans 8:31-38 Rethinking Religion— Rethinking Suffering Under the Cross! 31He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. 32He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33But when Jesus turned and looked at his…