In today’s passage, we reenter the story of Jesus Christ just after His agonizing prayer in Gethsemane when He submitted to the Father’s will to take His wrath in our place (see “Jesus and the Wrath of God”). And now, Judas arrives with an armed mob to arrest Him. What we’ll see is something pretty […]
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God is calling us to prayer. Last week, the pastoral support team and official board prayed with me concerning our church, and I know their prayers continued into Sunday. (Praise God for prayerful church leaders!) Then yesterday, as the sermon closed, the Lord led us to stop everything and pray together. 2 John 1:9 says,
There is a big push toward churches providing automated giving options via credit card, direct deposit, and similar methods. I understand that people like the convenience it provides, so they don’t have to remember to do anything. But as I read Scripture, I don’t see any indication that giving tithes and offerings should be easy
Lately it seems like quotes from Fred Rogers pop up on Facebook every week. Perhaps that’s because there have been some new biographies released in the past couple years. In the past few months I’ve read The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King, as well as an older biography, The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers by
As I’m nearing the end of Ed Welch’s book Running Scared, I came across this comment about 1 Peter 5:6-7: “Our natural tendency is to go it alone, or, if the load is too heavy, to call a friend to help. But Peter paints a different picture. In an act that could never have been
I’ve been reading Ed Welch’s book Running Scared (available in the church library), which seems pretty relevant to where I find myself these days. The following are several quotes that caught my attention, along with a few of my own thoughts. “There was a time when the biblical commands ‘Do not worry’ and ‘Do not