The Historical Jesus & Worship

The Incarnation is aimed at man’s transformation through the Cross and to the new corporeality of the Resurrection. God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where he is, so that we may get beyond ourselves. That is why to reduce [...]

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The Holiness of Christ

2 Corinthians 5:16-6:2
Do you ever look around as you come into church?  What do you see?  Do you see a building or do you see people?  Is the building done?  Are the people finished?  Do you see progress and changes being made or do you see only the things that need to be done?
When we look [...]

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Ascension Day Promises

I would guess that everyone of us has stood at the airport waving good by to someone we love as they flew off to wherever they were going in this big world.  We could have waved to our parents, to our children, to other family members or even to friends
I would also guess that standing [...]

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Assurance or Deception

The apostle John writes his first letter to because he wants us, his readers, to know that we can have assurance of our salvation or we can be deceived concerning our salvation.  He writes his letter to show us the ways to see the difference between the two.  We need to know both the deceptions [...]

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Resurrection Authority

Have you ever stopped to think that if the story of Jesus’ resurrection is true, then everything changes in life?
Jesus’ followers meet Him on a mountaintop in Galilee in Matthew 28.  Some worshipped Him, some doubted.  Some were ready to believe and worship Jesus as the Risen King, others weren’t so sure.
Jesus tells them “all [...]

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Easter Reflections

Some thoughts about Easter after a day to reflect on the message of Jesus’ resurrection in the gospels:
Matthew 28 is almost, but not quite the shortest chapter in the whole gospel of Matthew.  I realize that the chapter divisions were not part of the original writings of Matthew and were added over a thousand years [...]

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He Is Risen!

He is Risen indeed!

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Good Friday…

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree,
that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.
By His wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter 2:24

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The Last Supper

As they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said,
“Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me, one who is eating with Me.”
Mark 14:18
So after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out.
And it was night.
John 13:30
And as they were eating, He took bread,
and after blessing it broke it and gave [...]

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It is Not Supposed to Be Funny

Last night my church put on a drama skit called The Trial during our Sunday evening worship service.  It was the culmination of weeks of practice for the 12 people involved in the skit.  Overall they did a fairly good job considering only one or two of them have a sense of drama or acting [...]

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