What do you have control of when you approach God for worship? In corporate worship, you generally cannot select the hymns or sermon text or direct the way the pastor or liturgist prays. However, you are in charge of you. You can set the tone of...
This week's focus in our series "How Do I Please God" is preparation. How do you prepare for worship or do you?
We prepare for other meaningful practices. We train for the upcoming race. We shop for supplies for a trip...
Have you ever considered whether God is pleased with how you worship? Many times, we think about worship being about us, and it is. Yet, we assemble together and turn our hearts toward God to worship our divine creator. Should we not always...
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We learn from our text today that we are moved to share the Good News whenwe encounter the resurrected Christ, much...
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In a visual account of Jesus’ life using only Words from the Gospel called The Visual Bible, director Regardt van den Bergh depicts Jesus walking from the empty tomb to...
N.T. Wright in his work, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church shares that “resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven, but to...
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Jesus invites Peter, and us, to follow him and accept his commission to serve others in the name of God. We are invited to accept this call and gift...
Our relationship with God turns into one of joyful obedience when we are assured of our relationship with Christ and the forgiveness of our sins. For Peter, we see this takes place over breakfast with Jesus on the side of the Sea of Tiberias. For...
Click here to participate in the weekly devotional the Pastors and Peter. This 3rd week of the devotional will be about Faltering as Peter (and we) follows Jesus.
Today we focus on how Peter and all of us falter, that is, we fail to be faithful to God. Lent is a time to focus on those moments when we are less than faithful, when we tend to, like Peter, deny our faith and turn our...
