Holy Cross Onaway

Where you sit matters, and Jesus has invited you to come up and sit with him at his table.

Where have you come from? Strive to enter through the narrow door.

Jesus said, “I came to cast fire on the earth” this fire is God’s righteous judgement that purifies our souls by faith in the risen Lord.

Colossians 3:1-11 encourages us to live in our baptisms by seeking the thing above, not the things on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ.

As students we ask our teacher, teach us to pray. But prayer is easier than we think, so let us pray.

When Jesus visits Mary and Martha both sister worship the Lord. One by service and the other by receiving, one thing is needed and will not be taken away.

The parable of the Good Samaritan shows that a neighbor is one who shows mercy, even as Jesus has shown mercy to us by taking personal responsibility for us and our sin, not with empty words but in deed and truth.

Jesus sends out the 72 with many challenges, but they are victorious because their names are written in heaven.

Jesus prayed that we may be one. In this world it would not appear that we are one, but we are in fact one because Jesus loves us.

The one seated on the throne said, “behold, I am making all thugs new.” But what does it mean for us to be new? What’s new becomes old and dies in this work, but Christ is risen from the dead. In them we are a new creation. In him the old becomes new. The dead are raised. Sinners are forgiven.