Happy Easter! In Mark’s gospel, the Easter story ends with fear and uncertainty, but the cliffhanger ending invites us into the story. God is doing something new in our world, even today. Christ is risen! The text this year for Easter
Over and over again, humanity has fallen short, failing to live up to our covenants with God. So, God has made a new covenant in Jesus Christ, one that depends on God’s forgiveness, not our efforts. We depend on God
What difference does it make to believe in a God who is motivated by love? That’s the question for this sermon on March 14, 2021, the 4th Sunday in Lent. Today’s message is on God’s gift of grace and love
“Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle.” (John 2:15) In today’s sermon for the third Sunday in Lent, I look at what made Jesus so angry in
In today’s Gospel lesson from Mark 8:27-38, Jesus warns his disciples that there is a cost to following him. What does it mean to take up your cross and follow? And what kind of a Messiah is this Jesus, anyway?