1An account of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 2Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez
Pastors should use Christmas as an opportunity to communicate and explain truths about the Trinity and Jesus’ birth and divine nature. By Aaron Earls Christmas celebrates Jesus’ birth, but most Americans, including many in your church, may be confused about what exactly that means. More than half of Americans (55%)
This is Part 2 of my reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre’s recent comments on God that began here. MacIntyre rightly noted that divine omniscience involves God knowing everything that can be known. MacIntyre’s claim was that the genuine singularities of creative human action cannot be known or predicted before they occur. They cannot even
I had a pit in my stomach the first few weeks after we moved from Utah to Virginia, feeling somewhat like the baby eagles who are pushed from their cliff-high nests by their weary mothers and plummet wildly to the ground. When I’ve seen these nature documentaries with pictures of
By Thomas Lambrecht This week, the United Methodist Judicial Council (the equivalent of our church supreme court) handed down Decision 1451 regarding the processes to govern the 2024 meeting of the General Conference. This decision responded to requests from the Kenya-Ethiopia, Western Pennsylvania, and Alaska Annual Conferences. The Judicial Council
Following are updates shared from submissions of the Lutheran Office for World Community and state public policy offices (sppos) in the ELCA Advocacy Network this month. Full list and map of sppos available. U.N. | CALIFORNIA | COLORADO | NEW MEXICO | OHIO | PENNSYLVANIA | WASHINGTON | WISCONSIN
23Who is like your people, like Israel? Is there another nation on earth whose God went to redeem it as a people, and to make a name for himself, doing great and awesome things for them, by driving out before his people nations and their gods? 24And you established your
Evening Worship for this Saturday is adapted from the service provided in A New Zealand Prayer Book (2020) for those occasions of public worship for which there is a need for a Service of the Word. The service is loosely modeled on Morning and Evening Prayer from The Book