Scripture Readings: Ezekiel 36:23 (NKJV) Matthew 6:9 (NRSV) Too many times Christians live life in an ugly way—where we live as if God doesn’t exist. We’re cruel to one another. Rather than living in love,...

Scripture Readings: Isaiah 63:16 (NIV) Matthew 6:9 (NRSV) It’s been called: The Lord’s Prayer, The Disciple’s Prayer, The Our Father. Whatever you call it, it’s Christianity’s greatest prayer. Jesus gave us a gift with his...

Scripture Readings: Revelation 21:1-7 (NRSV) Revelation 21:22-27 (NRSV) Revelation 22:1-7 (NRSV) Angels blowing trumpets! Monsters rising from the deep! Rivers of blood and lakes of fire, oh my! There’s nothing quite like Revelation in the...

Scripture: Jude 1:20-25 (NRSV) Jude is the patron saint of lost causes in the Catholic church. Church tradition tells us that Jude was one of Jesus’ four younger brothers. Jude functions like a medical doctor...

Scripture: 3 John 1:1-14 (NRSV) Rev. Andrew McComb is our guest preacher this Sunday. (There is no transcript for this sermon. Please enjoy listening.)  

Scripture: 2 John 1:1-13 (NRSV) The Jewish concept of walking describes our whole existence, the way we treat others, essentially the way we roll in our day to day lives. There’s no mention of Jesus...

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...