So this is December, and what have you done? As you look back on 2017, what have you done this past year? Hopefully, a lot of immensely enjoyable things. Hopefully, you laughed a lot, loved a lot, and lived a lot. Hopefully, you created so many wonderful memories you’ll have trouble remembering them all. Maybe,…
How about a few words from Martin Luther: “And yet the love of the Son of God for us is of such magnitude that the greater the filth and stench of our sins, the more he befriends us, the more he cleanses us, relieving us of all our misery and of the burden of all…
A couple months ago, at the Praise Service, one of the songs Messenger led us in spoke of making God smile, and later I asked the congregation what might we do to make God smile. Suggestions included obey the 10 Commandments (a very good idea), attend worship (also very good), and comfort others (likewise very…
How do you greet someone, a friend, for instance? Probably with something like “Hi”, or “How are you doing?” And in reply, you likely get “Hi”, or “I’m doing good. How about you?” We greet each other informally most of the time, ask about health or something, keep things comfortable and familiar. Well, people who…
There are certainly some significant differences between the two people who come to Jesus for healing in this story The man is an important person in the community, while the woman is an outcast from the community The man has a name, Jairus, while the woman goes nameless The man comes to Jesus directly, speaks…