The LINK: 6/24
We’re excited to start this summer season with you all. Maybe you’re travel-ling, or getting out onto the river, or your work schedule eases up (or even gets fuller) this summer.
The LINK: 4/23
At the heart of our Christian faith is the story of a man who dies on a cross and on the third day is raised again to life.
The LINK: 3/23
Paul’s letter to the Philippian Christians is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Unlike other letters he writes, Paul is not dealing with heresy in the church nor is he writing a tightly woven theological essay. He is writing to people he is proud of, followers of Christ who are doing pretty well.
The LINK: 1/23
“One day as he saw the crowds gathering, Jesus went up on the mountain-side and sat down. His disciples gathered around him, and he began to teach them” (Matthew 5:1-2).
With these words, Matthew opens a three-chapter section of his gospel commonly referred to as The Sermon on the Mount. Beginning January 8 and going through the month of May, our Sunday sermon series will explore this teaching of Jesus.
The LINK: 12/22
The angel said to them, “Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people; for there is born to you this day a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” - Luke 2:10
The Bible teaches that Christ was born, and that he died and suffered on our behalf. As is here declared by the angel, he was born for us.
The LINK: 9/22
This fall I look forward to preaching a series on the parables of Jesus which were stories he told using everyday things to illustrate spiritual truth. A farmer and his seeds, a father and his sons, a shephered and his sheep - these were things people knew about from their everyday lives.
The LINK: 3/22
The 40 day season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday on March 2 and continues through Saturday, April 16, the day before Easter Sunday. (The 40 day count excludes Sundays.) The Christian Church has celebrated Lent for many centuries as a way to encourage Christians to prepare for Easter by observing a period of spiritual discipline. The choice of 40 days echoes important 40-day and 40-year events in the Bible, including the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness.
The LINK: 1/22
Near the middle of the first century AD, Paul wrote a pair of letters to a recently established congregation of Christians in the town of Thessalonica. The people to whom he addressed the two letters we now call 1 and 2 Thessalonians were for the most part new converts to Christianity who had grown up in a Greek cultural environment. One of Paul’s major challenges was that of helping these believers to learn, understand, and live by the very different social and ethical teachings of Jesus.
The LINK: 12/21
The season of Advent has been observed for centuries by Christians as a time to consider the significance of the Son of God coming into the world and to prepare for the celebration of his birth.
“God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.”
