We enter the final week of the Easter season—next week is Pentecost. The Ascension of Our Lord was Thursday, Easter’s 40th day. Throughout the Great 50 Days of Easter the church’s worship is awash in Alleluias as we recall our own baptisms into...

In these fifty days of Easter, we continue to be shaped and nurtured by the Beatitudes, those profound statements with which Jesus begins the “Sermon on the Mount.” Today we focus on the blessing and promise given to those who are merciful.

Our Easter joy continues! Today, as we celebrate Jesus as risen and ascended Lord, we hear more of His teaching in the “Beatitudes” and we celebrate the many blessings of God’s kingdom which has come to us in the victory of the Lord Jesus Christ—our...

The fourth week of Easter is wrapped in the imagery of Jesus as our Good Shepherd. By a more than appropriate calendar coincidence, this is also Mother’s Day. We understand that it is God’s good-shepherding intention that Christian mothers in their...

“Were not our hearts burning within us while He talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” So marveled the two men on the road to Emmaus. So too we intently listen to our Savior as we ponder another verse from the Beatitudes—“Blessed...

Our joyous celebration of the Resurrection continues! As we ponder this miraculous turning point in human history, we witness God’s power even in our own lives. Christ is risen among us and assures us of His Spirit and His peace. As Easter people...

“Alleluia! Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia!” That Easter greeting, proclaimed throughout the ages of the Church, takes root in our hearts so that we understand that the resurrected life is now our own. Jesus has wiped away all fear, all...

Good Friday message.

The name for this day comes from the Latin word “mandatum,” meaning “commandment.” It refers to the two “new” commandments our Lord gave to His disciples on this day. The first is “love one another”, and the second is “do this in remembrance of Me”...