Category: Worship

In today’s reading from Ephesians 5, Paul describes our lives as God’s redeemed people in terms of rising to the light of a new day. When Christ shines on us, giving light to our lives through His Word, we see what is true, what wisdom looks like. Not only that, but we are renewed as […]

The focus of our message will be the reading from 1 John 5, where John writes to believers and encourages them to live by faith in Jesus. They have been born again by the power of the Spirit, and they overcome the world through faith in the one who has overcome for us (John 16:33). […]

God’s grace is put on display most clearly in the death and resurrection of Jesus. But it is also an act of grace that the news of His kingdom and the life He has granted in His Son should come to us. Today, we consider the work of the Holy Spirit in sending the Philip, […]

On this Good Shepherd Sunday, we consider Jesus’ words from John 10 and the costly care that He gives to His flock. A hired hand cares more for his own wellbeing than for that of the flock, so when danger comes, he flees. The good shepherd cares for the wellbeing of the flock – and […]

In the Creed, Christians confess that we believe in the “resurrection of the body.” But what does that mean? In our Gospel reading from Luke, we join the disciples in beholding with amazement the resurrected body of our Savior – talking, eating, relating. And in 1 John 3, we are told that we will be […]