Our initial question for this morning is: What does it mean to create a new heaven and a new earth? Is the prophet speaking about the Kingdom of Grace in which we Christians now live, or, is this new heaven and earth the one Promised at the End of the Age?…For more, click on the title above.
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Life to eternity
Forty years ago, on this date, November 22,1985, at about this same hour, I heard the sound of a phone ringing. I wasn’t a pastor at that time in my life. I was a salesman, making a presentation in a house in Silver City, New Mexico. This was before cell phones, so it wasn’t my phone, it was that of the homeowner. I was a little mad because it had interrupted the flow of my sales pitch….For more, click on the title above.
Trinity 27_Last Sunday of the Church Year_2025
Trinity 27 – Last Sunday of the Church Year
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The call of Moses
I can just about guarantee each and every one of you gathered here this morning or listening to this sermon in some far-off place that one day you’ll find yourself wondering, “Who am I?” and “Why am I here?” Several thousand years ago, Moses was having one of those days. There he was, minding his own business, tending his father-in-law Jethro’s sheep, when God decides to call him to action. …For more, click on the title above.
Sheep or goat; which are you?
Trinity 26_Second to Last Sunday of the Church Year_2025
Trinity 26 – Second to Last Sunday of the Church Year
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Faith heals
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Trinity 21
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But deliver us from evil
God Cut the Beautiful Everlasting Covenant.
“That prayer helps keep this November Second’s Commemoration in it is
biblical place. Such prayers help prevent rightly confession congregations from
assenting to, or cooperating in, many types of false worship and practices that accompany All Souls Day. You likely know that many Tucson area residents celebrate the Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos on 1 and 2 November each year. In the face of that, we will continue to celebrate the biblical reality that people who have been baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus, even though they may die, live in Him forever. Baptized and continually believing persons who have not yet fallen asleep in the Lord find their greatest communion with the blessed ones who have died in Christ whenever they
come to Christ’s Altar Tables in rightly confessing and worshipping congregations. It is there where those who are baptized, those who rightly discern Christ’s Body and Blood in, with, and under earthly elements of bread and wine, recline in His Presence. Through those means, the faithful are granted forgiveness and strengthening to eternal life by Jesus Himself. Further, we recall that where Jesus is, there are the heavenly hosts.”
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