Christmas Eve turns on a small word used twice in verse 5: Joseph registers with Mary, who is with child. Pastor Adam makes “with” the whole message — and is…
Gabriel appears to exactly three people in scripture, and the first was Daniel — mid-prayer, pleading for his people. Pastor Harry reads the annunciation as the answer to a prayer…
No angels this week — just a poor young couple doing what the law required. Pastor Adam makes the ordinariness the subject, and points out that the King of Glory…
A father takes out a newspaper advertisement for his estranged son — all is forgiven — and eight hundred young men named Paco come to the meeting place. Elliott Stearns…
Pastor Jim Smith brings a seed packet to the pulpit and turns the parable of the sower from a diagnosis into a question he has asked students for seventeen years:…
Luke 24:28-35 and the moment of recognition at the breaking of bread — did not our hearts burn within us while he opened the Scriptures?