Advent Readings from the Revised Common Lectionary
Aaron Bjorklund2025-06-19T10:33:56-06:00Isaiah 2:1-5
Podcast Episode
Aaron Bjorklund2025-06-19T10:33:57-06:00By Alex Walton & Aaron Bjorklund In addition to our daily devotional readings we also produce a weekly podcast in which we discuss the previous Sunday’s sermon topic. Over the next few weeks we [...]
What Is Hospitality Anyway?
Grace Hunter2022-11-05T12:03:51-06:00When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, "Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God." Jesus replied: "A certain man [...]
The Extreme RSVP
Aaron Bjorklund2025-06-19T10:33:57-06:004 “Then he sent some more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to [...]
Party Excuses
Kathleen Petersen2022-11-05T10:22:36-06:00Luke 14 is packed with hospitality insights. It's customary to view hospitality as the responsibility of the one preparing and hosting a celebration. But Jesus’ story in verses 15-24 illustrates an equally meritorious aspect [...]
An Extravagant King
Carolyn Schmitt2022-11-04T22:34:59-06:00For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but [...]
Called to Follow-Who and How
Carolyn Schmitt2022-09-09T19:36:59-06:00But I urge you, believers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in full agreement in what you say that there be no divisions or factions among you, [...]
Misplaced Loyalty Displaces Unity
Kathleen Petersen2022-09-15T14:14:22-06:00In the 50+ years I’ve been a Jesus follower, a variety of English speaking Christian influencers have held prominence, attracting reverence and a following among evangelicals and charismatics: Billy and Franklin Graham, Benny Hinn, [...]
Holy People, Enriched in Every Way
Aaron Bjorklund2025-06-19T10:33:59-06:00"I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge— [...]
Grounded In Grace
Grace Hunter2022-09-15T14:11:25-06:00Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to [...]
