Have you ever really messed up? Has there ever been a moment in your life when you needed a second chance? Is there anyone who could answer “no” to either of those questions?
This week’s scripture is… well… a little bit creepy. In a way it’s something akin to a horror movie. I look forward to exploring this story of transformation — and the people’s reaction — this Sunday in our Sanctuary worship.
Most people know something about Jonah and the big fish — a whale, as the common interpretation goes — that swallowed him. Just about everyone knows that story, right?
This Sunday, February 21st, is the first Sunday in the season of Lent. Our worship theme this season is Darkest Before the Dawn. Within every moment of deep darkness lies the certainty that the dawn is coming.
This Sunday is the last Sunday before we enter the season of Lent. It is known as Transfiguration Sunday — the Sunday in which we remember the experience of Jesus and three of his disciples on a mountaintop in Galilee.
I’ll talk Sunday a bit about the dilemma faced by Christians in the early church, but the point Paul is making is applicable to us today.
It occurs to me that following means leaving. One cannot follow anyone or anything and stay put. So, if following Jesus means leaving, what does Jesus call us to leave?
We’ll begin a new series on Sunday focusing on learning as an important part of our followership. We are students no matter what our age or our situation in life.
Around the turn of a new year, we are most aware of this sense of living in the between time, this sense of past and future.
The good news is that light has penetrated the darkness and the light that penetrates darkness is the light of love.