Scripture: 1 John 3:1-3 (NKJV) Have you noticed that over time spouses often look like one another? There are a number of scientific reasons for this. Couples often times eat the same foods over the years,...

Scripture: 2 Peter 1:3-11 (NRSV) We human beings over the ages have sought to understand the interplay of the Rational and Emotional part of our lives. Plato used a metaphor where the self is a...

Scripture: 1 Peter 2: 1-10 (NRSV) Peter is one of my favorite characters in the New Testament. An uneducated Galilean fisherman becomes the revered and honored hero of the faith by millions over the last...

Scripture: James 3:1-12 (NRSV) Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken is probably the most famous American poem: two roads diverged in a yellow wood… Jesus had a similar message that the well-trodden path leads to...

Scripture Passages: Hebrews 11:1-3 (NKJV) Hebrews 11:13-16 (NKJV) The author of Hebrews describes faith as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” But faith in Hebrews is also a verb,...

Scripture Reading: 1 John 4:7-12 (NRSV) Rev. Norm Bagaas is our guest preacher this Sunday. Following is a list of Scripture passages Norm references during his Sermon. He calls them “one another “ passages from...