When someone says, “I love you,” there really is only one acceptable response: “I love you, too.” In Christ Jesus, God declares His love to us. Now it’s our turn.…
“I am the Good Shepherd,” Jesus declares. His shepherding love for us—and even for those “not yet in the fold”—is the theme for this day. Too often, however, we tend…
Seeing is believing…but believing is also seeing. In Acts, Peter admonishes the crowd for being amazed at the miraculous healing performed in Christ’s name. The Epistle speaks of the hope…
Fellowship is a term tossed around frequently in church circles, but too often meaning little more than chatting with friends during coffee hour…or entangling alliances with other church bodies we…
APRIL FOOLS! What a trick God played on sin, death, and the devil! Instead of evil and darkness overcoming, Light and Love proved victorious. Christ has risen!!! The direct result…
On this day the Church continues it procession with our crucified and risen Lord. He is in our midst as we hear about his life-giving death, as we follow Jesus’…
Jesus sees the unfolding hour of his death as a time to be glorified. Sometimes in life, those events that strike us as unfortunate, tragic, or bad are, in the…
It’s spring cleaning time! Jesus has come among us to cleanse us of our sin, those visible sins which clutter up our lives, trip us up, and make us look…
Jesus is God with us, the God who comes close to us. But there are times when Jesus is a great distance from us, because of our sin. Jesus reveals…
Knowledge—not just what we know, but who we know—can be a good or a dangerous thing…or both! Moses announces God’s warning: “Anyone who does not heed the words that the…