Others of you know me through work circles or friend circles or in the community where we have raised our children together and attended church together and spent hours at the ballfields together. Some of you entrusted your children to me. Many of us have laughed and cried and grieved togeth...
The Lord said to Moses, "Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water... 9So Moses took the staff from the Lord's presence, just as he commanded him. 10He and Aaron gathered the ...
This joy is echoed in other scriptures, such as Psalm 84:10, which highlights the psalmist's delight in being in God's courts. The communal aspect of worship is a recurring theme in the Bible, emphasizing the importance of gathering together in faith. “Let us go to the house of the ...
Because we are nourished by the Word of God and by the Eucharist when we gather together. Without spiritual food we will starve and our faith will become weaker. What does Holy Communion give us? God's life and love. Define offices of Christ the three roles of Jesus (Priest, prophet, ...
49I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled. 50And they all forsook him, and fled. 51And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: 52...
sacrificing myself if necessary. You need to know that I have other sheep in addition to those in this pen. I need to gather and bring them, too. They’ll also recognize my voice. Then it will be one flock, one Shepherd. This is why the Father loves me: because I freely lay down...
“Put away your sword,” Jesus told him. “Those who use the sword will die by the sword. Don’t you realize that I could ask my Father for thousands of angels to protect us, and he would send them instantly? But if I did, how would the Scriptures be fulfilled that describe what ...
Jesus came to set us free and gave us eternal life (John 8:34, 36). However, Jesus left out in His reading of the Scriptures the "day of vengeance of our God" which is the the second half of the verse of Isaiah 61:2 because His current ministry was about the "year of the Lord...
The lesson for us to consider is a simple one. The opportunity for eternal life is before us in the message of the gospel as it is declared in the scriptures and proclaimed by God’s people. It is offered to us freely if we are willing to see it and to obey what God requires for...
seen the writing on the subway walls, as Paul Simon once said. Maybe, just maybe, this will spur us on to be our better angles, to seek first a better kingdom, and celebrate the diversity of the being the crown of creation and together, really and seriously together, children of God....