Lectionary Sermon for 18 May 2025 (Easter 5 ) on John 13: 31-35 Posted on May 16, 2025 by peddiebill WHEN IT COMES TO A CHALLENGE: ARE WE HAPPY JUST WATCHING?I have a confession to make. When it comes to sport, I prefer to be numbered among the spectators. When it comes to ...
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shin...
I tend to hit the “teacher doldrums” once a semester – in October and then again in March. They are busy months smack dab in the middle of the semester. The freshness has worn off, the kids seem a little extra crazy, there are multiple demands on my time and energy, I’m not g...
The speaker of this verse, delivering the Sermon on the Mount, a foundational teaching moment in His ministry.2. DisciplesThe immediate audience of Jesus' teaching, representing all believers who are called to live out His teachings.3. The EarthSymbolic of the world and society in which ...
“BORN AGAIN”. God has chosen to completely remove the memory of your sinful life from His mind. He will not bring it up again and neither should you. That old you is dead and gone and you are now a new creation in God’s eyes and one of His precious blessed children. We are ...
James 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him? John 14:15 If ye love Me, keep My commandments. These Feast Days are all over the bible. ...
1) We are a denomination that specifically states that our government is to be founded upon the teaching of scripture in the Old and New Testaments (FOG 2.2) not the practice of other denominations, the beliefs of individuals, nor even a desire to avoid conflict. Therefore, we need to face...
I don’t think it’s coincidence, for example, that The Passion Of The Christ (2004) is both torture porn and hardline sermon: the two were completely compatible. This is a method that brute-forces a response beyond the intellectual. However sophisticated you think you are, if you have a...
t mixed all that loud, so what the recording really amounts to is an extended sermon given by one of rock and roll’s under-appreciated progenitors. I don’t put much stock in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but it was nice to see she was chosen for induction this year. Credit ...
pitying him if he were trying to make a point-by-point translation of the priest’s wavering remarks on Iowa Catholics in the Dubuque of yesteryear. Surely, his Asian hearers would then assume he had it wrong; no way would that white priest present some unprepared notes as his sermon. He...