Our Lord Jesus comes to His Temple as an infant. He will come many other times: when He is 12 to sit and teach the teachers, in His last week […]
Romans, Lesson 15: Life in the Spirit Directs us to Our Redemption
December 15, 2016 by
Paul is now going full bore into what it means to be living life in the Spirit. This life in the Spirit is the Christian reality because the Christian is […]
The Canticles of Christmas, Luke 1:67-79: Zechariah’s Song
December 7, 2016 by
The people of Israel suffered from amnesia. So do we. When life goes well, we forget our rescue and become complacent. The psalms remind us: “Our fathers in Egypt failed […]
The Canticles of Christmas
December 5, 2016 by
The midweek Advent and Christmas Eve services will focus on the Canticles of Christmas. In this series, we will explore the scriptural songs revolving around the coming of Christ for […]
Malachi 3:1-4: Jesus the Refiner
December 5, 2016 by
Advent is a season highlighted by holy living. By the Spirit’s help, we meditate on the Word, Jesus Christ, understanding the life He calls us to live. In Advent, we […]
Romans, Lesson 14: In Christ
December 5, 2016 by
We finished our last lesson half way through Romans, chapter 7, where Paul began to use the first-person pronoun “I” a lot. He was using a rhetorical technique called “prosopopoeia,” […]
Romans, Lesson 13: The Real Culprit is Sin, not the Law
December 5, 2016 by
In the last half of Romans 6, Paul ran with the idea that someone only has one of two possible masters: sin or God. He finished with a different comparison, […]
Romans, Lesson 12: We All Answer to Someone or Something
December 5, 2016 by
Christians don’t choose to live in their sin. Why? That is not who we are. We are Christians because God brings us into Jesus’ death and resurrection through baptism. Paul […]
The Canticles of Christmas, Luke 1:46-55: Mary’s Song
November 30, 2016 by
How did Mary remember what she never experienced? She is young, a teenager when the angel appears before her. He announces: You will become the mother of the Messiah, the […]
Deuteronomy 26:1-11: Thanksgiving and Thanks-living
November 23, 2016 by
Desiccated lips become the desert land, cracking under the unrelenting sky. Her skin begins to blister, stinging red from the blazing sun. The Autumn day scorches the farm field, baking […]
