Acts 9:1-19 When Saul set out from Jerusalem to Damascus, he had no idea his life would be turned upside down, shaken and reordered. Saul was a Pharisee who was zealous in his protection of Torah, the law of God, that was being rejected by the Jews who followed Jesus. He had stood as witness…
Luke 1&2 My daughter Caitlin gave birth nine months ago today (so Sam has been out of the womb for just as long as he was in the womb) and my other daughter, Elizabeth, will give birth at the end of January. And I have to tell you that it is a very strange feeling…
John 14:27 The night Jesus was born, angels appeared in the sky to shepherds out in the fields with their flocks. This heavenly concert announced the birth of Jesus and what was it that the announcement said? “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.” What…
Colossians 1:13-27 Peter Lee preached last week about Immanuel, God’s gift to us of his presence. He reminded us that Immanuel is a Hebrew word meaning, God with us, and that this word came from Isaiah to a nation troubled by the imminent prospect of war. Immanuel, God with us, came into a time of…
Colossians 1:24-27 Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo, was born in what is today Algeria on November 13, 354 and died on August 28, 430 when the Vandals had Hippo under siege. Although he lived more than fifteen hundred years ago, Roman Catholics consider him a saint and the pre-eminent Doctor of the Church. Evangelical Protestants…