The Third Sunday after Pentecost June 9, 2024
The Third Sunday after Pentecost June 9, 2024 Genesis 3:8-15 Amazing Truths About Our Amazing God— The Devil Does His Worst, Yet Jesus Always Wins! 8Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” 10He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was…
The Second Sunday after Pentecost June 2, 2024
The Second Sunday after Pentecost June 2, 2024 Mark 2:23-3:6 Amazing Truths About Our Amazing God— Spiritual Rest is a Gift, Not Something We Earn! 23One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?” 25He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and…
Trinity Sunday May 26, 2024
Trinity Sunday May 26, 2024 Romans 8:12-17 Amazing Truths About Our Amazing God— Only a Triune God Can Deliver What Only a Triune God Can Offer! 12Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation—but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. 13For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, 14because those who are led by the…
Pentecost Sunday May 19, 2024
Pentecost Sunday May 19, 2024 John 15:26, 27;16:4b-11 Resurrection Reality— Christ Has Not Left Us Alone! 26“When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning. I did not tell you this at first because I was with you. 5Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none…
Easter 7 Mother’s Day May 12,2024
The Seventh Sunday of Easter May 12, 2024 John 17:11b-19 A Mother’s Day Perspective on Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name— the name you gave me— so that they may be one as we are one. 12While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled. 13“I…
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…