After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who …
Loving Beyond Our Comfort Zone
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew …
No True Scotsman
“Whose image and inscription is this?” he asked. “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said, “Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” Matthew 22:20-21 (CEB) You are likely familiar with the “no true Scotsman” fallacy. It’s the term for when someone makes a claim that all things from a particular group, …
Idol Worship
When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become …
World Communion Sunday
In a time when the world and culture around us is pulling further apart by the day, what better witness can we share than to celebrate Holy Communion with hundreds of millions of other Christians around the world this Sunday? We last celebrated Communion as a gathered in-person church 7 months ago as the reality of COVID-19 was …