Dear Friends in Christ, My mother’s mother was a wonderful and hard-working woman. She was my grandma, but we always called her “mom”. And my grandpa we called “pop”.…
Dear friends in Christ Jesus, * Did you put on shoes this morning, or did you come to church in a car? * Do you eat cereal for breakfast,…
Dear friends in Christ, What’s a father to do? Tom Benson had two sons. He needed the lawn mown. The lawn was such a mess and the Benson’s friends…
Dear Friends in Christ, Today’s service, as you have probably noticed by now, has a definite harvest theme. The Gospel lesson which serves as our text is a harvest…
Dear Friends in Christ, I. Kingdom of Patience or Kingdom of Mercy? Peter gets the kingdom of heaven wrong. But this is a good thing for us, because we…
The Word of the Lord from Matthew 18:3: Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”…
Dear Friends in Christ, There are many stories about Simon Peter in the Bible. There are ninety-three references to Peter in the New Testament and he is referred to…
Dear Friends in Christ, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” That sounds like the kind of question you might get when someone is taking an opinion…
Dear friends in Christ, A close reading of the Bible reveals that many of the fiercest struggles that people have are not with the devil, not with the world,…
Dear Friends in Christ, This morning we have before us a collection of short parables that our Lord teaches in Matthew 13. It may seem at first to be…