The term “disrupted” fits the life Mary and Elizabeth are facing when God calls them to participate in the divine Christmas story. Maybe we can relate when we run headlong into a God-ordained disruption in our lives.
Jesus teaches us to accept that our lives are going to end, and that we can be given forgiveness and eternal life by a King who continues to live and rule from heaven.
During the Thanksgiving season and harvest time, we need to be reminded that the harvest belongs to God, and it’s a harvest of love. However, God’s harvest isn’t what we give but who we are. We are the harvest!
esus’ parable of the ten bridesmaids with their lamps stresses the importance of all Christians keeping awake and ready for the second coming of Jesus.
The challenge for us as chosen and set aside people of God is to live a santo subito (sainthood immediately) life, among saints who are at work in the church and the world. One of the keys to our Christian identity is that we are holy people, serving a holy Lord.
While there’s no chance that God is going to have a change of mind or heart regarding the greatest commandment, the verdict is unclear as, in some ways, we overturn God’s commandments every day.
The apostle Paul shows us a proper response of charity, clarity, and collaboration for resolving irreconcilable differences.
YHWH, as HI (Highest Intelligence), offers the Ten Commandments, a revolutionary and amazing covenantal agreement and code of conduct between God and humans, which reveals the brilliance of God and God’s expectations for us.
Located directly across from Ball Elementary on the corner of New City Road and Old Rt. 66 in Chatham, Illinois. Sugar Creek strives to bring people to Jesus Christ through worship, connection, and service.