THIRD SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST June 21, 2020 Announcements • HAPPY FATHER’S DAY – be sure to call your dad today 🙂 • Covid-19 Update – no covid update other than to say, “Be Safe” • Next Communion June 28 – 30. We’ll send out a link on Monday for the Sign Up Genius • We…
We have been freed from sin! We are no longer a slave to our desires, but this moral standard requires we be obedient. We were in servitude to sin – but we are now in servitude of a different kind. Where do we go from here? Happy Father’s Day! Be sure to call your dad…
In our studies of the bible, the laments from the old testament can be easy to ‘flyover’ and rush through to get to the rest of the book. The third chapter of Job find Job lamenting his life. It’s difficult to dig into these chapters, but we can learn from them. When we struggle to…
On this sanctity of life Sunday, and every day, we look for meaning in our human existence. Isaiah reminds us Jesus was human, he took on human form and lived his life with us on Earth. But did He labor in vain, did He spend His strength for nothing? No! Jesus was brought to bring…
When Zechariah wrote about the state of God’s people, they had fallen into an ugly and messy state. When we are in and ugly and messy state, we find ourselves feeling guilt and shame, as we struggle to hide our flaws. But God cared for his people then and now, turning them and us from…
When we pray to our Lord, we sometimes wonder: does He answer our prayers? And we might wonder: how should we pray? To answer the first question, we can examine the many times in the Bible God listed to prayer and changed His plan. To answer the second question, the Lord’s Prayer holds part of…
In Galatians Christ set us free – free from the shackles of sin! But what do we do with all this freedom? “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23) This is freedom from sin, freedom to serve others,…