Sometimes in life winds change rapidly. One moment everything is smooth sailing and then BAM! You are blown off course or find yourself dead in the water. You find yourself adrift. Feeling hopeless. Struggling, but going nowhere. But, what if drifting is just what you need? What if drifting IS the way forward? In today’s […]
If you were accused of being a Christian, is there enough evidence to convict you? Rev. John Arnold raises this question to explore the importance of having an exemplary faith. The faith of the Thessalonians was exemplary and not just to those closest to them. When the apostle Paul wrote the believers in Thessalonica, not […]
Jesus told a parable about a king who invited people to come to his son’s wedding banquet. Many people rejected the invitation. So he cast the invitation wider. Then at the banquet a curious thing happen. A man was there without wedding garments. The king was angry and cast him out of the banquet. For […]
Paul urged his young protege Timothy to pray, intercede, and give thanks for Kings and all those in authority. He asked him to do so that the community could live “peaceful and quiet lives in godliness and holiness.” When is the last time you felt like your community was experiencing a peaceful and quiet life? […]
The Apostle Peter asked Jesus, “How many times should we forgive someone? As many as seven?” I don’t know how that sounds to you, but seven is sounds at a least like and adequate try, if not a lot, but Jesus’s response was much larger. Try seventy-seven or some translations render the text as seventy […]
When Jesus gets asked by the disciples a question about who is the greatest, his answer probably wasn’t what they expected. He didn’t tell them a series of great works they should strive for. Instead, Jesus gives a long series of short instructions around creating and maintaining community. In today’s passage from the Gospel of […]