Here's the link to Acts 6. The disciples were increasing in number, we're told in our passage. More people were coming to faith in Jesus through the preaching ministry of the apostles and the witness of the church. We might think today of a growing church congregation. All good and wonderful, to see people experience …
Continue reading Reflections on the Book of Acts #6: Seven Men
I exhort the elders among you as a fellow elder and witness to the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory about to be revealed: Shepherd God’s flock among you, not overseeing out of compulsion but willingly, as God would have you; not out of greed for money but eagerly; …
Continue reading Living Now with Eternity in Mind #13: Living with Humility
Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another, and be compassionate and humble, not paying back evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a blessing, since you were called for this, so that you may inherit a blessing.For the one who wants to love lifeand to see …
Continue reading Living Now with Eternity in Mind #9: Living as the Community of Jesus
Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.’ Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the …
Here is my sermon from this morning. It's on Mark 9:30--41.
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