May 2018

Then Jesus said to Simon, ‘Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.’ When they had brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and […]

In their time together earlier this year, the members of the Confirmation Class started reading the Bibles that we, as a congregation, gave them. Before they were confirmed, our sixth

All spoke well of Him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from His mouth. Luke 4:22a When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with

When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him [Jesus] until an opportune time. Luke 4:13 It would seem that the devil had already found the most opportune

 Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise

Recently, I have been on a tangent of thinking back to the year 1978. (I have shared in several settings that the 40th anniversary of my high school graduation is

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years*, and in divine and human favor. Luke 2:52  *Or in stature. I have always loved and appreciated this closing sentence of the

Matthew and Luke both tell us the story of a time when Jesus was surrounded by his disciples and others on a hillside, and he taught them so many things

When the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord (as it is written in

With high school and college graduations on the horizon, many of us are focused on giving gifts to special people in our lives. Jesus spoke in John chapter 14 about