Or, more specifically, what makes a church MY church? I’ve always enjoyed visiting other churches during my travels. Reasons for choosing a particular church have ranged anywhere from, “I have to get on the road early, and this one has an early service,” to “This one is closer to the hotel than that one.”...
Posts Tagged ‘Jesus Christ’
On Wednesday, I’ll likely be tested on my professor’s definition of religion which reads as follows: Religion derives from the haunting realization of ultimate powerlessness in an inscrutable world, where each person harbors the unquestioning and irrational conviction of the possibility of gaining mystic security by somehow identifying one’s self with what can never be known. He...
Okay, so maybe my husband has been right all these years, and all I learned in college was how to say “I don’t know” in 20 words instead of 3. Dr. R made the above statement today while discussing a couple of concepts having to do with the complementary roles in society that men...
And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. –1 Corinthians 6:11 I do not know all of the Savior’s reasons for choosing the woman at the well. I know that His revelation...
Okay, so sometimes my lesson illustrations leave a little something to be desired. Tonight, I thought I was right on the money. The text tonight was Micah 6:6-8 – Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a...
Suffering is a subject that seems to keep coming up in one way or another in the ladies’ Sunday school class that I lead – the suffering of the martrys, in particular, but also the suffering that simply accompanies being alive in a body and a world that is decaying. The verse that my title...
One of many songs I just love to hear and sing along with and wish were part of the repertoire at my church. Gracious God, we worship Thee, for salvation full and free. Jesus Christ, our only plea, Father, we adore Thee. For Thy love so vast and wide, shown to us by Him who...
I’ve got a couple. First is Psalm 40:2-3 because that’s the story of what God through faith in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection has done for me. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he...
How then shall they callon him in whom they have not believed?and how shall they believein him of whom they have not heard?and how shall they hear without a preacher?And how shall they preach,except they be sent?as it is written,How beautiful are the feet of themthat preach the gospel of peace,and bring glad tidingsof good...
