Beloved,  The heart of the gospel is summarized in our passage this week! And it speaks of God's work in us. This week is youth Sunday, pray for our youth as they lead us in worship this week.  Ephesians 2:8-10 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Beloved, we are going through a few sermon during Eastertide.  Which means that resurrection sends shock waves of truth into our old ways of thinking and transforms them into new ways of thinking and living.  So we will learn from the NT letters which talk about the affects the resurrection has on us.  This week resurrection teaches that we have a new attitude.  2 Corinthians 4:7-18 7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God

Happy Easter, the Sunday of our Lord, resurrected from the dead!  (Don't worry about what some churches say, the word "Easter" is not of pagan origin, but simply a word taken from Germanic language to mark the sun rising in the east, basically the dawn.)   We are going to learn this week from the women visiting the empty tomb of Jesus.  In the coming weeks, we are going to learn about what it is to live out the resurrection in today's world.   Mark 16:1-8 1 When the Sabbath w

Beloved in the Lord,  We've been looking at the final hours of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark.  This week we celebrate Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.  We will read from Luke's Gospel, and the sobering words of Jesus in response to the Pharisees for their unbelief.   The Triumphal Entry Luke 19:28-44 28 After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he

Mark 15:1-15 Beloved,  As we follow Jesus to the cross, we see the path of injustice, and scapegoating he had to endure.  And we see how much this reveals about God's mercy and steadfast love for us.  Look to Jesus our Savior! 15      Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, reached a decision. They bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate. 2 “Are you the king of the Jews?” asked Pilate. “Ye