Jun 24, 2024 | Sights and Insights
My friends, you were chosen to be free. So don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do anything you want. Use it as an opportunity to serve each other with love. All the Law says can be summed up in the command to love others as much as you love yourself. –...
Jun 17, 2024 | Sights and Insights
It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This down payment from God is the first installment on what’s coming, a reminder that we’ll...
Jun 11, 2024 | Sights and Insights
God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. – Genesis 1:31 (NRSVUE) Too often we acknowledge the reality of God’s grace but fail to be gracious to ourselves. We judge ourselves harshly...
Jun 3, 2024 | Sights and Insights
This is what I have seen to be good: it is fitting to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of the life God gives us, for this is our lot. – Ecclesiastes 5:18 (NRSVUE) I recently bought the book Ordinary...
May 28, 2024 | Sights and Insights
The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up, and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful...
May 20, 2024 | Sights and Insights
The New Jersey Synod Assembly was held on Saturday, May 11. Below is a recap of the day from Bishop Bartholomew. Dennis and JoAnn Lawrence represented St. Matthew as lay members. Be sure to talk with them about their experiences of the day. Special congratulations to...
