God’s glory is God’s glory — there is only one God. So if we want to share God’s glory and see it spread through the world, we share the hope of Jesus.
Pastor Tim talks about how we live and understand God’s control of the world in the time before Jesus returns.
Pastor Tim talks about extravagant gifts and what the Bible says about the truly extravagant gift we receive at Christmas because of the very first Christmas.
Pastor Tim spent time in Busiek State Forest to better think about the time between the Newborn servant coming into the world and when we, His followers, will get to experience His triumph.
To understand Christmas, we need to understand who Jesus is and what He gave for us. It gives us a direction for what He intends for our lives.
Are we going to be unified with the world or unified with the Lord? That’s the challenge that Paul hands down to us here.
God calls us to “civic” expressions of His love when elections go the way we hope and also when they do not.
As we come an election and contemplate how much those around us drive us crazy, God calls us to a different path as the church than what the world says we ought to do. We turn to 1 Timothy 2 for insights into the Lord’s plan for us in a partisan world.
As we try to not just do something but something pleasing to God, how do we do that? How do we add the flavor of His love into a world that needs it?