Lent
Facing the cross – We see a kind of power
Text: 1Peter 2:24 The young couple visited the church. The wanted to know more so they enrolled in the pastor’s Bible information class. Early on, the pastor found out they were living together and not married. Now the pastor could have told them right off, that’s wrong. You need to repent. But he didn’t. Instead he waited for the […]
Live Like Heaven IS Your Home
Text: Philippians 3:17-4:1 Paul wrote this letter to Christians living in Philippi, a city in northern Greece in an area called Macedonia. It was different from the other cities in the area. It had been colonized and settled by Rome years before. Many who lived there were retired Roman soldiers given land to live there. So even though Rome was […]
Facing the Cross
Text: Romans 5: 6-8 We put our cross up on the front lawn of the church last week. It’s big, meant to be noticed. I wonder how many people walk past it or drive past it each day. Probably quite a few. I also wonder how many give it much thought. It’s hard to know. But I suspect that most […]
Be Earnest and Repent
Revelation 3: 14-22 14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I […]
The One We Follow to His Cross
Text: Luke 9: 28-36 It’s that time of year again. The time when we begin a weekly journey together. This Wednesday, Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent. After that, we will gather each Wednesday evening here in Petaluma and Windsor. We’ll begin our yearly journey to a place that would seem so tragic to those that followed Jesus. And […]