Who do you look up to? An accomplished friend or relative, maybe? A character from history? A President of our country? As we compare ourselves to others of whom we’re aware we can see traits of others we don’t possess – and we look up...
We continue today with our Lenten Series “A Walk Through the 23rd Psalm”. In our walk together, today we unpack verse 4 which reads: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death” --- that’s testing. “I will fear no evil” --- that’s...
Pastor Phill Robbins is joined by Rev. Dr. Larry Stoterau for Saturday's service on March 6th, 2021....
We continue today with are Lenten Series “A Walk Through the 23rd Psalm”. In verse 3, David writes: “He restoreth my soul”….that’s forgiveness. Without forgiveness, without our souls’ being restored, we would be spiritually dead, total separated from God. Jesus hung on the Cross at Calvary...
Easy to boast, isn’t it? So much of what we accomplish we attribute to our own cleverness – after all, I thought it up, I knew how to do it, I got it done, so there! Generally we forget that God gave us such gifts...
Lent is a time for us to reflect upon our lives; to reflect upon all those times that we have turned away from God. Lent is a time to turn back to God who loves each one of us so dearly. The 23rd Psalm is a...
You remember tug ‘o war, right? One group on one end of a rope, another on the other end, pulling for all they’re worth to drag the other off balance and across the line. That game was the more fun, wasn’t it, when instead of...
Although not commanded Biblically, the tradition of the imposition of ashes does go back centuries. The early church father Terullian in the third century AD said confession of sin should be accompanied by lying in sackcloth and ashes (On Repentance, ch 9). His examples from...
Imagine Peter, James, and John as they descended Mount Tabor, with Jesus, after witnessing the Transfiguration. Their heads must have been reeling. And they couldn’t tell anyone! You know they must have huddled up privately to relive those moments, trying to understand what they had...
Where do you stand? No, don’t look down, that’s not what I meant. Where do you stand, in your faith, among other men and women? Where do you stand, in your faith, before God? In our epistle for today Paul, writing to the church at Corinth,...