Communicating Christ (Page 5)
May 21, 2023 — This Sunday we light the Christ Candle for the last time until Christmas. This candle marks the “festival half” of the church year where each year we review the time of Christ’s life on earth. Our First Lesson, from the Book of Acts records the day Jesus ascended back into heaven…
May 14, 2023 — In our Gospel Lesson, Jesus promises the Holy Spirit. He also promises to come back for His disciples. Those promises empower us to live for God and to strive to keep His commands. His greatest commands are to Love God and Love one another. Peter, too, in our epistle lesson urges…
May 7, 2023 — Jesus doesn’t say, “I’ll show you the way,” but rather “I AM the Way. I AM the Truth. I AM the life.” It’s the most inclusive truth of all. Jesus lived and died to save the whole world from itself. It’s also the most exclusive truth of all. There is no…
April 30, 2023 — Jesus doesn’t exactly pay us a compliment by comparing us to sheep. But it’s an apt picture, because like sheep we need a Shepherd. Without Jesus we wouldn’t know which way to go. We’d be unable to care for ourselves, especially with all the dangers we face in the world both…
April 23, 2023 — As we continue our 7-Week celebration of Easter, this Sunday’s Gospel is the account of Jesus’ appearance to the two disciples on the way to Emmaus. They explained to Jesus that they had once “hoped that Jesus was the Messiah” but then the Jewish leaders and the Romans killed Him. Jesus…
As we continue our 7-Week Celebration of Easter, this Sunday’s Gospel is the account of Jesus’ appearance to the disciples on Easter eve and then again a week after Easter. Jesus appeared to all the disciples and promised peace. He appeared to Thomas to take away his doubts and give him peace too. Then Jesus…
Join us on Easter Day for our Festival Service at 9 AM followed by Food and Fellowship
We are about to enter the Holiest Week of the year. On Maundy Thursday, we will commemorate the Last Supper, the Passover meal at which Jesus instituted the Sacrament of the Altar for the forgiveness of sins, of which Jesus said: “This do, in remembrance of Me.” On Good Friday, we will solemnly commemorate the…
March 26, 2023 — Death is the bitter lot we inherited from Adam. But God wants us to know that even in the face of death, He promises that whoever believes in Him will live, even though he dies. The “resurrection of the body” we confess in the creed is the Crown Jewel of Christianity.…
March 19, 2023– The Old Testament prophets, especially Isaiah, outlined signs that would prove the Messiah had come, such as giving hearing to the deaf and sight to the blind. Jesus fulfilled all those signs. In the Gospel Lesson, John records the sixth of the seven signs, as Jesus heals a blind man. That gives…