Discipleship is a high calling and you might thing God would ‘shower favor’ on those who chose it. Well, maybe not. Yet absent the special favors of God, Tim Whalen shares with listeners that there is still very great benefit or reward for each person who lives a live of discipleship.
Pastor Dan is at General Assembly and our own Tim Whalen shared some thoughts from God’s Word on the subject: “What is discipleship? What is needed of a Christ Follower if he whats to be a disciple?
What is God’s righteousness? Why do we need it? How do we obtain it? And what benefits accrue to those who obtain it? These are the questions that our own Mike Klenda shared in his sermon today. Many in the world have a variety of theories and ideas about how man is to find “salvation” […]
The Apostle Paul is in prison as he wrote to the believers in Philipi. Paul knows that life is can be very hard. It can be painful. Yet Paul gives the Philipians this encouragement: The LORD is near. He is near in that he is in us, and he is near to mean that his […]
One of the last ‘lessons’ Jesus taught his disciples was an ‘object lesson’. He washed their feet. This was a task for a slave or servant – not the Master. Yet in that washing Jesus demonstrated, he illustrated in a very concrete way was he was soon to accomplish on the cross. In his trial […]
“Unless a grain of wheat falls in the ground and dies, it abides alone…” This is the paradox that Pastor Dan had as his focus today. Just as the kernel of wheat: if it wants to retain its identy, its essence, it remains simply a seed. But if it ‘dies’ in the soil, it becomes […]
The fifth Sunday in Lent. This week Jesus is revealed, or perhaps better, God’s glory is revealed through Jesus. A dear friend dies supposedly because Jesus doesn’t arrive in time. But wait… “Your brother will rise again!” … What an amazing event. Those who believed saw the glory of God. Those who would not believe […]
Lent. Jesus is being revealed. This week Pastor Dan’s sermon on the “man blind from birth” shows how Jesus is revealed to those who are blind, and hidden from those with ‘sight’.