First Sunday of Advent

Pastor Josh Harp

The first coming of Christ the Lord, God’s son and our God, was in obscurity; the second will be in the sight of the whole world. When he came in obscurity no one recognized him but his own servants; when he comes openly he will be known by both good people and bad.

When he came in obscurity, it was to be judged; when he comes openly it will be to judge.

Augustine (AD 354-430)

Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King

Pastor Josh Harp

When a dove begins to associate with crows, its feathers remain white but its heart grows dark.

German Proverb

Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

Jesus‘s face is not compared to the sun, but the sun is compared to his face.

Thomas G. Weinandy

Twenty=Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Rev. Joshua Walker

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. ... Ideology – that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

True prayers are like those carrier pigeons which find their way so well; they cannot fail to go to heaven, for it is from heaven that they came; they are only going home.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost

Rev Dr Justin McLendon

Jesus does nothing independently of the church nor can the church do anything independently of Christ.

Max Thurian

Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost

Rev. Robert Korljan

Sola scriptura did not invite a free-for-all approach to Scripture in which any and all had the right to assert its authority to substantiate whatever insights they claimed to have attained from it.

James Payton

Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

Without individuals nothing happens; without institutions nothing survives.

Talleyrand

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

It’s a good thing God chose me before I was born, because He surely would not have afterwards.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon