Why We Give: Because Giving Glorifies God and His Kingdom
September 12, 2025 After this week’s review of Jesus’ remarkable teaching on giving in Luke 12:13-34, how are you feeling? Warned?...
Why We Give: Because Our Father Gives Us the Kingdom
September 11, 2025 Today’s passage was one of my grandpa’s favorites. I do not know all of his reasons but as a farmer who lived...
Why We Give: Because Life Does Not Consist in an Abundance of Possessions
September 9, 2025 Today, we start exploring reasons we as a church practice giving as part of our public worship. Our lesson begins as...
Why We Give
September 8, 2025 This week, we continue our study of Liturgies and why we, as a church, do what we do. This week we ask why giving is an...
“And so we came to Rome.”
“After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered in the island—it was an Alexandrian ship with the figurehead of...
“Safely on shore…”
JUNE 26, 2025 The nightmare at sea is over! But the start of Paul’s time “safely on shore” isn’t off to a great start. Let’s...
“Keep up your courage…”
JUNE 25, 2025 The nightmare at sea is not quite over for those on board the doomed Alexandrian ship. We left them yesterday when they lost...
“We finally gave up all hope of being saved…”
JUNE 24, 2025 Today, we pick up the harrowing tale of Paul’s journey to Italy right after his warning of impending disaster is...
“It was decided that we would set sail for Italy…”
JUNE 23, 2025 Pastor Hanibal recently highlighted the fact that God gives His followers courage as we remember and cling to God’s...