Dear friends in Christ, The church calendar this year has us spending a lot of time in the gospel of Matthew. I’d like to share some thoughts with you from Matthew 9:35-38 that I’ve been ruminating on since the Third Sunday After Pentecost. 35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.36 But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with

Dear Brothers, Sisters, and Friends, Reading from the Apocrypha in Ecclesiasticus 1 it struck me how God's ways are so above man's ways. The disparity is all the more noticeable when considering the counsel of the ungodly which is so available and easily accessible. "11. The fear of the Lord is honour, and glory, and gladness, and a crown of rejoicing. 12. The fear of the Lord maketh a merry heart, and giveth joy, and gladness, and a long life. 13. Whoso feareth

“Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. 39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: 40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

“And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering” Genesis 22:8. There are many blessed passages in scripture that prophecy of the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This April we rejoice when we consider the events of Good Friday and Easter, not just as history, but as a personal confirmation of the work that our Savior performed for each one of us. We can read of the many times that our Savior reminded his disciples, and those that