Are You All In? CONCLUSION PART XV As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause, Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number. Job 5:8-9 Several years ago, the Tampa Bay Lightning Hockey Team had a marketing campaign, entitled “All In.” Read more
We Can All Solve This Problem CONCLUSION PART XIV Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Paschal lamb, has been Read more
A Son, a Mother, a Scribe, the Church, and the Gospel SUNDAY EPISTLES & GOSPELS Falling Asleep of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian Gospel from the Falling Asleep of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian Standing by the cross of Jesus were His mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary Read more
Fear and Love Cannot Coexist SUNDAY EPISTLES & GOSPELS SATURDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK Falling Asleep of St. John the Evangelist and Theologian No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us. By this we know that Read more
CONCLUSION PART XIII: Who is Going to Take the First Step? Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in Read more
Have you ever been scared of somebody important? Maybe you were a little scared to talk to your teacher on the first day of school. Or maybe you met somebody famous and couldn’t think of a word to say to him or her. Sometimes talking to an important person might Read more
FEAST DAY EPISTLES & GOSPELS Conception of St. John the Baptist Some Historical Background from the Old Testament For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, the Read more
CONCLUSION PART XII Practical Ways We Can All Make a Difference As Jesus went ashore He saw a great throng; and He had compassion on them, and healed their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a lonely place, and the day is Read more
CONCLUSION PART XI: Swimming Against the Current On the way to Jerusalem, He was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as He entered a village, He was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” Read more
CONCLUSION: PART X The Encouragement Walk Experiment:The Gift is You So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter. And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement. And Judas and Silas, who were themselves Read more
Gospel from Sunday After the Holy Cross Jesus said, “If any man would come after Me, let Him deny Himself and take up His cross and follow Me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save Read more
Dying to the Law & Living for Christ SUNDAY EPISTLES & GOSPELS Saturday After the Holy Cross Brethren, knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith Read more