It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Advent As some of you have learned, my wife is a real stickler about not playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving. As it happens,…
No Such Thing as Coincidence Text: Exodus 2:1-10 And a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi. So the woman conceived and bore a son….
Text: 1 Cor. 14:1-25 Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to…
Do You Really Want “God With Us”? Text: Isaiah 7:10-17 Moreover the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying, “Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; ask it either…
The Judgment Is Salvation Text: Isaiah 35 The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose; It shall blossom…
The Reign of the Branch Text: Isaiah 11:1-10 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit…
Text: Luke 3:1-6 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of…
Text: 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming…
Text: Isaiah 64:1-4 My wife hates it when folks play Christmas music before Thanksgiving. And so you can imagine how it has been to learn that people here in Central…