An Everlasting Baptism – Mark 1:9-15 The Gospel of Mark – which is the central gospel from which many of our Sunday Scripture readings will be taken this year –…
Today, on this second Sunday of Advent, the focus is on peace. The advent of peace…or the coming of peace. The word advent is from the Latin word for ‘coming’…the…
The passage read this morning from the prophet Isaiah comes to us from a period in the history of the people of Israel as they are preparing to return from…
We never go through this life alone. As believers in God, we have a constant companion. Whether we view that companion as God in the grand overall sense of what…
When we say that we have a philosophy of life, we are in fact telling other people something about what guides us in our daily round of life. Perhaps we…
The events that took place in the passage we have heard from Matthew’s Gospel are part of the week that Jesus spent with the disciples in Jerusalem after his coming…
PRESBYTERIAN SHARING SUNDAY,OCTOBER 15, 2017 MEDITATION GOD TEARS THE FENCE DOWN Jesus was the master of teaching in parables. Jesus’ parables are short stories that teach a spiritual lesson and…
In the passage from Philippians, Paul encourages the people in the church to ever keep before them what was in the mind of Jesus Christ. The greatest temptation we can…
In today’s gospel lesson from Matthew we have question after question after question. And not your everyday type of question – what time is it? What’s for dinner? Why did…
Happy Anniversary St Andrew’s! Even if this is not a milestone date for your congregation, it holds meaning for you. Anniversaries are like birthdays, where we can focus on ourselves…