Celebrate the Easter Gospel!
Easter Sunday April 21, 2019 I Corinthians 15:1-11 Celebrate The Easter Gospel! 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 for our sins…
Get Ready for Easter– Recognize Your Savior!
Palm Sunday April 14, 2019 Philippians 2:5-11 Get Ready for Easter— Recognize Your Savior! 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…
Get Ready for Easter– Keep Your Eyes Focused on the Goal!
The Fifth Sunday in Lent April 7, 2019 Philippians 3:12-14 Get Ready for Easter— Keep Your Eyes Focused on the Goal! Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is…
Get Ready for Easter– Praise the Lord!
The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 31, 2019 Isaiah 12:1-6 Get Ready for Easter— Praise the Lord! In that day you will say: “I will praise you, O LORD. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me. Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.” With joy you will draw water from…
Get Ready for Easter– Remember!
The Third Sunday in Lent March 24, 2019 I Corinthians 10:1-13 Get Ready for Easter— Remember! For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that…
Get Ready for Easter– Proclaim the Lord’s Message Fearlessly
The Second Sunday in Lent March 17, 2019 Jeremiah 26:8-15 Get Ready for Easter— Proclaim the Lord’s Message Fearlessly! But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized him and said, “You must die! Why do you prophesy in the LORD’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?” And all the people…
Get Ready for Easter– Remember the Grace of God!
The First Sunday in Lent March 10, 2019 Deuteronomy 26:5-10 Get Ready for Easter— Remember the Grace of God! Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous. But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, putting us to hard labor. Then we cried out to the LORD, the God of…
The Light of the Transfiguration Continues to Shine!
Transfiguration Sunday March 3, 2019 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 The Light of the Transfiguration Continues to Shine! And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants…
The True Gold in the Golden Rule!
The Seventh Sunday after Epiphany February 24, 2019 Luke 6:27-36 The True Gold in The Golden Rule! Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, “But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give…
The Contrasts of Christianity
The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany February 17, 2019 Luke 6:17-26 The Contrasts of Christianity He went down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. Those troubled by evil spirits were cured, and the people all tried to…