As we come to worship on the third week of Advent we are also about to experience the longest night of

How does a weary world rejoice? Our scriptures this week suggest the importance of the wilderness in the journey of faith.

The season of Advent is upon us. Unlike some of our holiday traditions that spark nostalgia or good feelings as we

Many look at the state of the world and wonder what God is going to do about all the trouble near

The world of the Bible is very different from our lives today. Family, community, and even national identity were much tighter

The Apostles eagerly awaited the gift of the Holy Spirit after the resurrected Jesus had ascended. They didn’t fully know the

More than ¼ of Jesus’s parables were about material resources, and about 15% of what we have from his preaching was

We never need to look very hard for evidence for the ways the world is broken. We have walked another week

We can get ourselves to the point where we’ve decided to be Unoffendable and even become an expert at it. The

We must walk in humility because it is only by the grace and mercy of God that we walk with Jesus.