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I trust that springtime has found you all well.  We enjoyed another great Sunday School lesson this past weekend and discussed the community project that is occurring this coming Sunday.
Whether you missed last week, or did not participate in the “Knock on Nine” event, and even if you haven’t attended Sunday School in a long [...]

Good class discussion today.  Just when you wonder how the Old Testament is relevant today, we’re reminded that just as Nehemiah’s purpose was to rebuild the walls and gates of Jerusalem, so it is our mission to build God’s Kingdom – the New Jerusalem:
5 Then I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and [...]

We had pretty good attendance for a holiday – maybe it was the rain.  The lesson scripture for this week was drawn from the 5th and 6th chapters of Ephesians.  Here it is:

21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord.
23 For the husband [...]

Today’s lesson scripture is from 1st Timothy, Chapter 5.  After a brief admonishment about how we are to speak to one another, the chapter focuses on widows:
1 Do not speak harshly to an older man, but speak to him as to a father, to younger men as brothers,
2 to older women as mothers, to younger women [...]

With today’s scripture we start off with some of Paul’s most beautiful language, specifically five virtues: compassion, kindness, humility, meekness and patience (verse 12) and then add the greatest of these – love (verse 14).  So far, so good.  No one can (or at least no one should) argue with these virtues/goals.  But . . . [...]

      When I was a little girl, my family would travel to my Grandmother and Grandfather’s home and eat the noon-day meal with them on Sunday.  This meal, or should I say feast, was a big deal and everything about it needed to be properly prepared to my Grandmother’s standards. This included setting the table [...]

The Greek word from which we derive “ecclesiastical” is a combination of two words: “ek”, meaning “out”; and “kaleo”, meaning “to call”.  It originally referred to the assembly of citizens “called out” to govern the city.  This political term was deliberatedly chosen by the early Church to refer to itself — the subject of Christ’s [...]