Faith doesn’t just sit around. It doesn’t just carry God around in its head with it. Faith is active.
Tag Archives: Sacraments
Celebrating Christ’s Coming
Is your worship like the day people were celebrating Jesus entry into Jerusalem? Or is it feel more like the birthday of someone who’s 82?
Three Ways to Redeem the Time
Paul wrote to the Ephesians that they should redeem the time because the days were evil. How and why do we do that?
Holy Places, Holy People
There are holy places, holy things, and holy people. In John 2, Jesus cleanses the temple by making a whip of cords and driving out the people who were using it as a market and the animals they were selling. People can be holy, too. Jesus, of course; but also, you!
Outline
- Introduction: A young woman with a sense of the holy.
- The holiness of God’s temple and how it was abused.
- The action Jesus took.
- Holy spaces today and their proper use.
- Why Jesus considered his body to be a temple.
- His prophecy concerning his death and resurrection.
- How you are made holy by baptism and holy communion.
- You are holy to the Lord.
A Good Summary of Jesus’ Teaching
There are many different ways that people summarize what Jesus taught. Unfortunately, the more popular summaries of his teaching leave a lot to be desired. The Mark’s Gospel summarizes it this way, “The Kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent and believe the good news.”
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Come with Me
The end of the first chapter of John’s Gospel recounts how Jesus gathered his first disciples near the place where John the Baptizer was working. How did he connect with them? What did they think of him? Why did they go with him? We invite you to come with us during the coming year as we follow Jesus through the Gospels.
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Come Down, O Lord!
Isaiah, the prophet, cried out to God, “O that you would rend the heavens and come down!” But if God comes in his glory, Isaiah wonders, can we be saved? For in his words, “we have been long in our sins.”
This short sermon explains how God came and still comes to his people to save them.
