Author: mbaye

On February 18, 1546, the day that Martin Luther died, his loved ones found a note in his pocket. The last words in that note were these: “We are beggars. This is true.” The only hope for beggars is the kindness of another. And when that kindness comes, a beggar won’t refuse it! In today’s […]

What does prosperity – the good life – look like? People would answer that question in a number of ways, and many of those answers would be short-sighted. God calls us to stop pursuing prosperity by paths of our own design, and instead to trust that he has done everything to guarantee our prosperity today, […]

When we seek life in anything other than God, we turn all of life on its head; but God has sought us in Jesus and saved us so that we might find our life in seeking and knowing him. Amos writes to a nation in which many enjoy material prosperity and have come to trust […]

The theme for this year’s LWML Sunday is “Our Hearts in HIS Hand.” In this message, we will first celebrate the awe-inspiring love of God to ransom us from our futile ways of life through the blood of His Son. And then we will consider the miracle that God does in transforming our hard, wandering […]

God is way bigger than we can imagine, and He works through people and in places far beyond what we can see. In today’s Gospel reading from Mark 9, Jesus teaches His disciples to look beyond themselves to the bigger work that God is doing in His name. May God guard us from sin which […]