by Webmaster | Apr 18, 2023 | Weekly Message
There’s one question that has the potential to cause more harm in relationships than any other. “What’s in it for me?” Selfishness infiltrates the human heart. It’s a malady that makes the Black Plague look like the common cold. No other infirmity has caused more...
by Webmaster | Apr 11, 2023 | Weekly Message
When Luke writes the final chapter of his gospel (chapter 24), he employs a clever narrative device called literary irony. It’s a set up where the reader is aware of important facts that are hidden from the characters in the account. It’s especially powerful because...
by Webmaster | Apr 6, 2023 | Weekly Message
Many years ago there was a great loss in the entertainment world. Larry LaPrise, the Detroit native who wrote the song “The Hokey Pokey”, died at age 83. Though he died peacefully, it was a difficult time for the family—especially when it was time to put him in the...
by Webmaster | Mar 28, 2023 | Weekly Message
This Palm Sunday or Sunday of the Passion, we enter Holy Week, the time when we recall Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem and his eventual death on the cross. What starts out on an emotional high and time of celebration and singing Hosanna, quickly turns dour and gloomy, a...
by Webmaster | Mar 21, 2023 | Weekly Message
As we continue this Sunday in the gospel of Mark, it’s back to reality. Jesus and his closest comrades have just come down off the mountain where Jesus was transfigured before them … and now it’s back to reality confronting real world problems, a boy possessed with an...
by Webmaster | Mar 14, 2023 | Weekly Message
This week, we read about Peter and his buddies on a mountain with Jesus. The event is called the transfiguration and comes as a relief, and boost of hope after some heavy teaching words Jesus gives to Peter. Real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in...
