Sep 8, 2023 | Sights and Insights
Learning that: The virtual is real As Christians, it should be a given that many of the most important aspects of the reality exceed what can physically be seen. In practice, however, we quickly lose track of this insight. Too often if we cannot see something we...
Sep 4, 2023 | Sights and Insights
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. – Galatians 5:22-23 (NRSVUE) In this final week of the summer series on Martin Luther’s...
Aug 28, 2023 | Sights and Insights
I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that...
Aug 21, 2023 | Sights and Insights
Indeed, the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. – Hebrews 4:12 (NRSVUE) The devotions continue the summer...
Aug 14, 2023 | Sights and Insights
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against things like this. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the self with its passions and its desires. If we live...
Aug 7, 2023 | Sights and Insights
However, we know that a person isn’t made righteous by the works of the Law but rather through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. We ourselves believed in Christ Jesus so that we could be made righteous by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the...
