This year’s Advent theme this year is “Grace-Filled Beginnings” (a resource from the ELCA’s Western North Dakota Synod based on John Stevens’ Advent devotional book Grace-Filled Beginnings)and over these next four weeks, we’ll be exploring the significance of God’s grace
We are called to share the good news of the coming of God’s kingdom, called to live God’s way, rather than the world’s way. But as followers of Jesus, what is it we are supposed to do? In this Sunday’s
On this fourth Sunday of Advent in RCL Year C, we are looking at Matthew’s telling of the Christmas story. Connecting Jesus’ birth to ancient prophecies, we see Jesus as the culmination of God’s plan of salvation. Jesus is God
Last Sunday, we heard about John the Baptist boldly crying out in the wilderness. He proclaimed that “the kingdom of heaven has come near” and demanded the people repent and reorient their lives toward God. This weekend, we once again
On this second Sunday of Advent, we hear both a beautiful, optimistic promise from Isaiah 11:1-10, and an aggressive word of warning from John the Baptist in Matthew 3:1-12. As people of God living in the year 2022, surrounded by