The Spirit lead Jesus into the wilderness for a time of testing. Note that the Spirit’s testing is the other side of the coin of the...

In Jonah chapter 2, we’ve jumped in a ways into this story, but just in case you need a refresher, God called Jonah to be his prophet to...

“They hit me and I hit them back harder, and they disappear,” Donald Trump said in 2016 during his first presidential campaign,...

We have four different Gospels in the New Testament and each Gospel paints for us a faithful picture of the life of Jesus. Yet, like any...

When you read the New Testament, it's obvious that people were committed and accountable to the church in which they belonged. For this...

In the catalogues of God’s faithful people, we have plenty of big names: Adam, Abraham, Moses and David. Mary, Peter, John and Paul....

This morning we read Jesus’ first sermon in the Gospel of Luke. Before Jesus preached that morning a lot had already happened in his...

Once, this passage really came to my rescue. We used to live in the parsonage, which is the house directly behind the church. In 2018 we...

The first part of this sermon is going to be review, so bear with me. In the past, we’ve looked at John’s baptism as a symbolic action, a...

It is helpful to contrast the passage in Luke 1:39-45 with the story that comes immediately before. By way of reminder, the passage in...