This week many Catholic and some Protestant churches have Ash Wednesday services. The Ash Wednesday service marks a 40 day period of prayer and fasting that ends on Thursday evening prior to Good Friday. Believers who recognize Ash Wednesday commemorate the day by attending a church service. The Ash Wednesday service is concluded with a […]
We will be in Luke 21 this week. I will be focusing on the Second Coming of Jesus. With our world being in much turbulence and uncertainty the Second Coming is a topic of great interest. Almost nightly you can find a prophecy teacher on television addressing this multi-faceted topic. How you interpret Scripture becomes
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Thanks to a lot of hardworking people we had a wonderful celebration dinner at the church on January 20. The purpose of the dinner was to celebrate all the ministries at the church and thank those who are making it happen. I love the book of Acts where the Holy Spirit is empowering the people
Who or what has authority in your life? When you wonder what to do or what to think, where do you turn? Everyone looks to someone or something to guide them. In reality, we have a network of many “authorities” that overlap and resemble a kind of hierarchy – some take pride of place, others
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This week, we’re beginning to look at the passages in Luke that show us Jesus’ final conflict with the religious leadership – “the scribes and the chief priests and the elders.” In that final conflict, we see Jesus who challenges what can be an overly simplistic picture of what a God of love looks like.
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