Posts from February 2025

Weekly Update – February 27th, 2025  Most of us listen to a sermon at least once a week. Others of you may listen to more than one per week. Either way, considering the listening that we may do, the question we should ask ourselves is, “How can I make my listening more beneficial?”  Often we may hear a sermon thinking that it was a great explanation of a certain text or a helpful insight into the character of God, but…

Weekly Update – February 20th, 2025  Last week we looked at what we called, Kingdom Humility, from Luke 6:37-49.  The most popular verse in this section though, is likely verse 37 which says, “Judge not, and you will not be judged.”  Now, this verse isn’t calling us to forego ever passing judgement on anything in life.  Just two verses earlier, Jesus told his followers to “love your enemies” (6:35), and five verses later, Jesus compares good fruit to bad fruit…

Weekly Update – February 13th, 2025  In Romans 5:8-10 we read, “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.” This passage is significant to us…

Weekly Update – February 6th, 2025  By nature, as human beings, we were all created to be with other people.  In fact, in Genesis 2:18 when God created Adam, he said, “it is not good that the man should be alone.”  That statement from Genesis points to the divine image that we reflect.  God, who created us, eternally exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  This means that God is not an isolated being, disconnected from anyone and everyone.  Instead,…