Click Here to Read This Week's Epistle: Ephesians 5:8-19 Light is critical to all life. No living things grow and flourish in darkness. Without Christ in our life, we walk in darkness. St. Paul tells the Ephesian people how important it is to live and walk as children of light. In this scripture, St. …
Month: November 2015
Where Does All the Madness End?
Further thoughts on Luke 12; Click Here to Read This Week's Gospel: Luke 12:16-2 I started this week with an intention to be thankful for what I have been given in this life. No, not the stuff (but, yes that too), but the real gifts: family, freedom, shelter, food, and of course, love. Thanks to …
From Whom All Blessings Flow
Click Here to Read This Week's Gospel: Luke 12:16-21 Thanksgiving is this week. It is a time to be thankful for all we have and to remember from whom all our blessings flow. I wonder how many people will gather around a table Thursday and eat an extravagant meal without even realizing for what …
I Am A Miracle!
Further thoughts on Luke 8... Friday is my favorite day. I’m off work on Fridays, usually (that is if a pastor is ever really off work). When it comes to the end of a hard week, I really need to be reminded that Jesus is here to heal me, just as much as He was …
All That Is Hidden Will Be Revealed
This Week's Gospel - Click to Read: Luke 8:41-56 Jesus Heals the Woman With the Issue of Blood It is a sad commentary that some who come to faith in Jesus Christ think they can hide the fact from everyone around them. They want the healing that comes through Jesus, but they really do not …
The High-Low Game
Ever play the High-Low Game in life? No, not the card game. You know, the one where your day's events take you from the heights of the splendor of the Himalayas all the way to the depths of the Dead Sea. Sometimes it happens all in one week, sometimes even all in one day. I …
The One Thing We All Need…Is The One Thing We Least Beleive In
This Week's Gospel: Click Here to read - Luke 8:26-39 Jesus Heals the Gerasene Demoniac Who would have believed that a man with multiple demons, a man no one could control, not even keep chained up, could ever be healed? You would think having witnessed the most incredible miracle of their lives, the people of …
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The Romance of Death
The more I've thought about last Sunday's gospel message this week, the less I've thought of death and all that's unknown about it. That seems remarkable to me considering I had a funeral to officiate yesterday, and two funerals to officiate today. Surrounded by so much death, I keep hearing Jesus words about the poor …
Sin Is Wrong, Hell Is Real, No Second Chances
This week's gospel, November 1-7 The Rich Man and Lazarus Luke 16:19-31 Click Here to Read the gospel. We don't know a lot about what happens to us after we die. What is Heaven really like? How will we experience it without our bodies? Of course, in the end of the book of Revelation we …
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