The “Chalking of the Door” is a way to celebrate and literally mark the occasion of the Epiphany and God’s blessing of our lives and home.
01/03/25
It's a new year, and you are still the same you: a sinner who is simultaneously perfect in every way because Christ declares it to be so.
01/02/25
In Simeon's hands and Anna's gaze, we are reminded of God's promise—not distant, not fading, but alive.
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03/19/21
Being able to tell the difference between truth and lies is at the core of repentance.
03/16/21
When you walk into church on Sunday, you may not notice, but there are wounded soldiers sitting in every single pew.
03/14/21
James and John come before Jesus and request positions of honor in His coming Kingdom. While we may be surprised at their actions, we understand their desires. They are interested in upward mobility.
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03/14/21
The fact of Jesus being the greatest of all priests in the greatest of all orders of priesthood, means Jesus is the consummate pastor for those in need of a powerful and availing shepherd.
03/14/21
Jesus takes the sins of man upon Himself and carries them to the cross to make our hearts holy and acceptable in the eyes of God.
03/13/21
Jesus lives to intercede. So we needn’t bring him our feigned righteousness or our faux rehabilitation.
03/12/21
Repentance means being cut down by the law’s declaration of judgment. It’s not an activity we do to prepare for grace, but a point of despair worked by God himself.
03/11/21
If we want to see evidence of our Father’s answer to the fifth petition, we need only to look at the cross and the empty tomb.
03/10/21
Our ears are opened by the Spirit through the word. Then, faith in Christ is present in us.
03/09/21
There is joy in Lent, but it is the kind of joy that comes in being made whole.
03/08/21
It’s not the disciples’ faith that invented the resurrection but the resurrection that gave birth to the disciples’ faith.
03/07/21
Is it possible to take a cyber approach to the season of Lent? I do not think so.
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