No sermon. Just helping folks in the community
You often hear the caution: “If it sounds too good to be true, it is.” But what if that’s not true? Today’s lessons contain from pretty outrageous promises. God dares…
[NO AUDIO] “It is not enough just for you to be my light to Israel,” God tells his servant. “I am making you a light to all the nations.” Today…
There is something about coming home that soothes the soul—even if you’re returning from vacation. With a nod to our youth returning from their mission trip to San Francisco, today’s…
[NO AUDIO] We Americans take our freedom of religion for granted; or, even worse, we declare ourselves a Christian nation and make things difficult for those of other faiths. The…
When thinking about the prophet Jonah, we dwell so much on his being gobbled up by a big fish that we don’t wrestle with the reason he refuses to go…
[NO AUDIO] What do you do after the disaster? How do you pick up the pieces? Where do your turn? To whom do you turn? These are the questions Ezekiel…
If the prophet Jeremiah comes across a bit gloomy and depressed, he has reason to. He lived during Judah’s darkest days, when apostasy, idolatry, perverted worship and moral decay seemed…
Isaiah, the “pinnacle of Hebrew prophecy,” resembles the Bible in miniature. Its first 39 chapters correspond to the 39 books of the Old Testament and stress the righteousness, holiness, and…
In a Samaritan village, Jesus engages a woman of rather loose morals in a conversation which leads her to run and tell the rest of her village, “Come and see…