John 6:60-69 {Prayer} Road A or Road B. You know nothing about what looms beyond what you can see nor do you know where each road leads, but you have to choose. Faced with this decision you would probably start asking some questions, looking for some sort of clue in order to help…
John 6:35-51; Ephesians 4:25-5:2 Grace and Peace to you from our Lord and Savior, Jesus who is the Christ. Amen There are verses from our gospel lesson in John and our epistle lesson from Ephesians that I would like to pay close attention to this morning. From Ephesians chapter 5: 1 Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly…
Exodus 16:1-12 {Prayer} I hate going to the eye doctor. It’s not because of the “which is better, a or b?” kind of questions. As much as I don’t like things touching my eye, even the little tapping pressure machine isn’t that bad. The thing I hate about the eye doctor are things like…
Hebrews 6:13-20 The world around us … it is an ever changing world. Since I could be considered the modern version of ZZ Top’s hit “Sharp Dressed Man” and am up on all the modern fashion trends, let’s take a look at the world of fashion for a moment. After World War I, people…
Jeremiah 23:1-6 {Prayer} If you had to choose a creature we humans are most like … what creature would you choose? In the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin claimed that people are most like monkeys. Well, that was wrong then and it’s still wrong today. Many biologists now say that people are more like rats. …
Ephesians 1:3-14, Colossians 3:14 There are many times in life in which your standing in life, affects what you feel or say. For example, {A} if someone who is better than you, at – let’s say bowling, really beats you and then tells you that “you are actually really good”, (even though you had several gutter…
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 {Prayer} As we all already know, today our nation celebrates Independence Day. On this day in 1776 the Declaration of Independence was accepted by the leaders of the 13 original colonies. Through our songs and prayers, we recognize that we are blessed and we give thanks to God for the blessings…
Mark 5:21-43 {Prayer} King Solomon starts Ecclesiastes 3 saying that “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” In verse four he says there is “a time to weep and a time to laugh.” There is a time to mourn, to complain, to shed tears, to lament…
Luke 15:11-32 {Prayer} Children, children are truly a gift from God. Even in the midst of a temper tantrum, the sassiness, or a full-blown teenage attitude, even though we may think we are being punished for the way we adults treated our parents when we were their age … despite all that … children…
Revelation 14:14-20 {Prayer} Our reading from Revelation 14 is one which sounds like it could produce the script for a good horror movie and very well may be one of the reasons why someone may not want to read the book of Revelation. I’m not a fan of horror movies myself as there is…