The affirmation of faith of the United Church of Canada, which we recite most Sundays in our worship, says, “We are called to be the church: to celebrate God’s presence, to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen, our judge and our hope.”
I can trust that God’s answers to my prayers will lead me on the right path.
There’s a lesson for Christians today in this story of the first healing after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
Of all the people on the pages of the Bible, it was the Apostle Paul who knew what it was to face the harshness of life.
As I write this, I’m remembering the construction of the children’s wing expansion at our church.
Psalm 119, one of several acrostic poems found in the Bible, has 176 verses, making it the longest Psalm as well as the longest chapter in the Bible.