The people in Israel were waiting for a Messiah, a king, who would right the wrongs of their current reality and restore Israel. Many were gathering to be baptized by John in expectation that something would soon happen — the Messiah was coming. Since...
Good morning! Today is the last week of our Prepare the Way series that took us from Advent through Epiphany. And yes, today is Epiphany Sunday, Three Kings Day, or Little Christmas, which means it’s time to take down the Christmas decorations. Except,...
Anyone ever use Google? Probably a bit of a silly question in this day and age, but even if you don’t on a regular basis I’m sure at some point in your life you’ve searched for something either on the internet or perhaps in the local library. And how do...
Before the advent of GPS being built into phones (advent – see what I did there?), I used to have this old, sit it on the dashboard GPS from Magellan. I used it for work, and took it on trips across the country, and even to Puerto Rico once. Every time you would get...
Today, as we close on the Advent season, our theme is “welcome”, which kind of makes sense given what we will be celebrating tomorrow night. I saw a quote on Friday that made me think of the message today. It went something like, “Christ has already come for us, so...
Today, as part of week 3 of advent we’re celebrating joy. A topic of mixed reception in our family of faith right now. But today, in week 3 of our message series called “Prepare the Way” we’re working from the word “Do”. Now, I could preach a message to based on these...
