Pentecost 2023
Today is Memorial Day in the United States of America. This is the day we set aside to remember and pay our respects to all those who have given their lives protecting the people and freedoms of this great country. While you do this, take time to thank God for the thousands upon thousands of people who have given their lives, and still do, for the Gospel of Christ. They are the heroes of the church.
Growing Up In Greenhills- Week Three
I was sitting on the porch of my house when I heard the phone ringing. In the 1960s we didn’t have air conditioning so all the windows were open. I still can remember my phone number 825-6363 fifty-some years later. How is that even possible?
Reading the Bible in Year
How many of you have read the entire Bible? How many of you have read it in a year? My son’s family in Penang Malaysia and his daughter here in the States along with Grandma and Grandpa are about halfway through reading the Bible in a year.
The Order of the Basin and Towel
It is Thursday night, the night before Jesus was to be crucified. In John 13:1-2 we read that Jesus' hour had come, and he would soon be dead. This was his destiny and these men with him were his beloved disciples, the men he had chosen and the Father had given him.
What is Maundy Thursday?
In some traditions, churches will have evening worship services to remember the time of teaching in the Upper Room where Jesus taught the first Lord’s Supper. We call those worship services Maundy Thursday services. I remember a man asking me “Pastor what is ‘Maundy Thursday”? He was new to the church. Some of you might also be asking “What is Maundy Thursday?” Most people know what Good Friday is and I am reasonably sure the vast majority of people know about Easter. But, I would hazard a guess that most do not know what Maundy Thursday is.