The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost July 17, 2022
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost July 17, 2022 Galatians 5:1, 13-25 You Were Called to Be Free! It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love…
Pentecost 5 July 10, 2022
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost July 10, 2022 Galatians 3:23-29 Pictures of God’s Plan for His Children! Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ…
Pentecost 4- Fourth of July July 3, 2022
The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost July 3, 2022 Galatians 2:11-21 Stand Firm in Your Gospel Freedom! When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him…
The Third Sunday after Pentecost June 26, 2022
The Third Sunday after Pentecost June 26, 2022 Galatians 1:11-24 The Gospel is a Hill Worth Dying On! I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and…
Father’s Day June 19, 2022
Father’s Day June 19, 2022 Luke 7: 1-10 Strive to Have a Great Faith! When Jesus had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. There a centurion’s servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man…
Trinity Sunday June 12, 2022
Trinity Sunday June 12, 2022 John 16:12-15 The Triune God is the God Who Saved Us! “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what…
Pentecost Sunday June 5, 2022
Pentecost Sunday June 5, 2022 Genesis 11:1-9 Pentecost Takes the Babbling Out of Babel! Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,…
The Seventh Sunday of Easter May 29, 2022
The Seventh Sunday of Easter May 29, 2022 Revelation 22:12-17, 20 I Am Ready to Go Home! “Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the…
The Fifth Sunday of Easter May 15, 2022
The Fifth Sunday of Easter May 15, 2022 John 13:31-35 Love One Another— As I Have Loved You! When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews,…
Good Shepherd Sunday/Mother’s Day May 8, 2022
The Fourth Sunday of Easter Mother’s Day May 8, 2022 John 10:22-30 Our Good Shepherd Is Our “Safe Person”! Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon’s Colonnade. The Jews gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in…