Life Guide 3 Ways Christ is a King As usual, today, we heard three different readings from the Bible. Since it’s Christ the King week, each of our readings focuses on a different world in which Jesus is king. Daniel chapter 7 shows us the big picture. Jesus is the cosmic ruler of all time. […]
Life Guide 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 (NIV) 13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring […]
Life Guide The Day is Coming! 1. When Jesus will judge all people 2. When Jesus will give life to those who hear his voice 19 Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does […]
If you ask me, there are few recreational activities that require more courage than skydiving. To be honest, even rollercoasters are a stretch for me, let alone jumping out of a plane at 14,000 feet. Maybe what makes it so scary is that you need to have a high level of trust that everything is […]
Life Guide In a few minutes, we will pass around offering plates, and people will put money in them as a gift to God. Little kids will put in a quarter, and grown-ups will put in a check or some cash in an envelope. So if Jesus were in your pew—I mean, he is, but […]
Life Guide 14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. 15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag,[a] each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. 16 The man who had received five bags of gold […]
Life Guide Have you noticed it yet, the elephant in the room? The elephant in the room is one of those things that’s very obviously there, but something we’d like to go as long as possible without being forced to talk about. Today is the day we have to address the elephant in the room. […]
Life Guide 13 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of […]
Life Guide Deuteronomy 6:1-9 These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I […]
Life Guide My Grandmother gave me one of those gifts that keeps on giving. She gave it to me not on Christmas, but one particular New Year’s Eve. Grandpa had died and gone to heaven a few years prior and at age 92, she was now living in an independent senior home. We had made […]