In the first of a two part series Fr. Carl explains what happens at our baptism and how formative and instrumental it is to our life in Christ.

Though we find ourselves to be exiles, we can trust that God is working through the difficulties and challenges we face to refine and reform us to the image of the one who assumed our shame, miseries, and flesh: Jesus.

As we seek God's heart and will we can trust that he will speak into our lives through Scripture, a sermon, a counselor, or even a dream.

Though we live in a fallen world, God has blessed us in immeasurable ways and calls us to a life of joy that is rooted in his faithfulness and promises.

In the midst of injustices, atrocities, and hurts we await the return of Jesus, the perfect judge, who will set all things right and whose kingdom will have no end.

The prophecies of the Messiah’s advent led many of the people who encountered Jesus to have rigid, closed-off expectations, but God is calling us to live with a posture of expectancy, with hearts that are open to the work he is doing in our midst.

On his last Sunday with us Pastor Ken reminds us of the Our Father, the prayer that Jesus gave his disciples, and invites us to come back to it over and over because this prayer teaches us how we always ought to pray.

Though we suffer injustices now, we wait for the Day of the Lord when Jesus will return and set all things right.

In the face of suffering in body, mind, or soul, we can cling to the hope of the return of Jesus, when our sinful bodies will be made like his glorious body, and suffering will come to an end.

God, the unmoved mover, has moved in our hearts by grace through faith to draw us to his Son Jesus that we might become his inheritance, all to the glory of God.