THE GREATEST OF THESE…..

“Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all...

SPIRITUAL GIFTS AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH

I Cor. 12: 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed and led astray to idols that could not speak. 3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the...

WELCOMING THE STRANGER(S)

Matthew 2: 1 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, 2 asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him...

A PRIME TIME FOR MUSLIM/CHRISTIAN FRIENDSHIP

What grows in the absence of knowledge? Not just ignorance, but fear. Relationships between most Americans and Muslims are highly charged with fear today, since terrorism has stepped so boldly into the gap of knowledge between our two communities. There’s no...

FEAR AND FEAR NOT

14Sing aloud, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem! 15 The Lord has taken away the judgments against you, he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst; you shall fear disaster...