Tag Archive for: promises


Clueless: When Angels Scratch Their Heads Over Us
Are your kids as clueless as mine once were? You tell them to go wash their hands because it's dinnertime. Instead both of them come racing to the table, slurping milk before their bottom hits the chair. "Show me your hands ...…

See Jesus: As He Ascends
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Seeing Jesus is essential for our faith. We see him now by faith, but those who lived then, when he did, saw him with their own eyes. They were eye witnesses of his life, death, and resurrection.
But…

Faithfulness: A Promise that Leads to Joy
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What does faithfulness look like? Faithfulness--not just to a job or a cause--but to the people around you? Where does it start and how does it end?
When we were kids we promised to be best friends forever,…

Everlasting Father: Unwrapping Jesus’ Surprising Title
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How can Jesus be addressed as "Everlasting Father" when he's the Son? That was the starting point for the Third Sunday in Advent's sermon. And I was glad it was, because it happened to be my question…

Advent: A Seed of Suspicion, A Seed of Promise
The first sin of the first man brought death and ruin to us all. But God's response was to bring hope through a promise.