Life Guide Family Guide The holy gospel for the third Sunday in Advent is taken from Matthew, chapter 11; verses 2-11. 2 When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples 3 to ask him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect […]
Life Guide Life Guide – Leader’s Notes Family Guide A Branch to Hang Your Hopes On Did you get your Christmas Tree up? Did any of you go out this week in the snow to a tree farm to cut your own tree? My wife and I made a strenuous journey to find the perfect […]
Family Guide The Lord is Coming! 1. The timing of his coming is unknown 2. Therefore, we must be ready at all times 36“No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37As it was in the days of Noah, so it […]
You saw in the children’s sermon, there was the mother and the baby and the dragon. Maybe some of you kids were thinking “Pastor, why did you say there was a dragon at Christmas?” But to be honest, I just said it because God said it in Revelation 12. Why would God put this in […]
Download Life Guide I wanted all of you to receive the Schreiner family Christmas card this year. But to save on postage, I decided to share it with you here. We really wanted to include the perfect passage to express Christmas joy, so we did some searching, and I think we nailed it. “You brood […]
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You’re as cuddly as a cactus and as charming as an eel. You’re a bad banana with a greasy black peel. You’re a monster, Mr. Grinch. This time of year you hear a lot about Dr. Seuss’s Mr. Grinch. On the outside he looked quite ready for Christmas. He wore a Santa hat. He had […]
Download Life Guide “Drug overdoses and suicides caused drop in 2017 life expectancy.” “Christian missionary murdered in India.” “Camp Fire is deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history.” “12 dead in Thousand Oaks shooting.” “7.0 magnitude earthquake rocks Alaska.” When you hear another day’s headlines that sound like this– natural disasters, war, division, persecution, […]
The murderer stood there soaked in his own sweat and sprayed with blood. He held his weapon of choice in his trembling hand as his victim’s blood dripped off of it and onto the old books he had knocked off the shelf during the struggle. If he cleaned himself up quickly he could probably get […]