Article for the First Sunday in Lent March 9, 2025                        Luke 4:1–2  1J esus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the...

Article for Ash Wednesday March 5, 2025 Genesis 2:5-7  5  When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field...

Article for March 2, 2025 Luke 9:28–29   28 Now about eight days after these sayings [Jesus] took with him Peter and John and James and...

Article for February 23, 2025 Luke 6:27–29  27[ Jesus said:] “But I say to you who hear , “love your enemies,” do good to those who hate...

Article for February 16, 2025 Jeremiah 17:5–6  5 Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength,...

Article for February 9, 2025 Luke 5:10b–11 And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.” 11 And when...

Article for February 2, 2025 Jeremiah 1:4–5  4 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew...

Article for January 26, 2025 Third Sunday after Epiphany Luke 4:16–17a  16 [Jesus] came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as...

Article for January 12, 2025 Luke 3:15–16 15 As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning...

Article for January 5, 2025 Ephesians 1:3–4a  3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with...

Article for December 29, 2024 Exodus 13:1–2 1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to...

Article for Christmas Eve December 24, 2024 Isaiah 9:7  7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the...

Article for December 22, 2024 Micah 5:2  2  But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you...

Article for Advent service December 18, 2024 1 Timothy 4:1–3   1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from...

Article for December 15, 2024 Philippians 4:4–5a 4Rejoice in the Lord always; again, I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be...

Article for Dec 11, 2024 Revelation 20:1–3  1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless...

Article for December 8, 2024 Malachi 3:1 1 “Behold, I send my messenger and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you...

Article for Sunday December 1, 2024 1 Thessalonians 3:9–10  9 What thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we...

Article for Thanksgiving Day 2024 Deuteronomy 8:5–6  5 Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God...

Article for November 24, 2024 Isaiah 51:6  6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like...