Now that the Easter bunny has gone back to his cave and all the chocolate eggs are on sale, we continue to celebrate the Easter holiday. This season of the church calendar is called Eastertide. We celebrate Christ’s resurrection for 50 days until the day of Pentecost. So, this might...
All the synoptic gospels include the teaching about new wineskins. Found in Matthew 9:14-17, Mark 2:18-22 and Luke 5:33-39 it comes to us in the context of asking about fasting, a refocusing on God’s roles in our lives. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new...
“So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling...
“The God who meets our needs does not decide to stop one day. Like Zechariah, we can practice attending to the rituals of our faith and trusting God to meet us as we do the things disciples are called to do: serving, praising, praying, and more.” Enuma Okoro January...
Happy New Year! Sunday, November 28 marked the first Sunday of the New Year in the Church calendar. It is a special day meaning Advent has begun. The time where we celebrate the birth of our Savior and remember that Christ will return. We live into a new hope while...
