What Must We Remember?
On this Remembrance Sunday and throughout this week, our thoughts focus on the need to remember those who have fought in several wars over many decades in various places. We […]
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Rev. Chris Davis
Dinner with the Despised or Perfect Love?
I have a special regard for the gospel according to Luke because no other gospel portrays Jesus as the friend of outcasts and outsiders as much as Luke does. One
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A Return to Fruitfulness and Abundance
We do not know a great deal about the prophet Joel except that he identifies himself as the son of Pethuel. Beyond that, most scholars use what little internal evidence
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A Church With the Heart for Justice
St. Luke chapter eighteen begins with two parables being told by Jesus about prayer. In the first parable, which is our text for today, we read about a widow who
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What’s On the Menu? It’s Time for Real Food
Today is a fitting time to talk about food given that tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day and today we are featuring through our Minute for Mission segment, the Essex Food Grains
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Keep Hope in Our Faithful God
The book of Lamentations as its name suggests is a book of lament. With this in mind, the questions then arise, who is lamenting and what is he or she
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God’s Protecting Arms Surround Those Who Trust in Him
Many years ago as a young boy growing up in a rural village, we had different kinds of domestic animals around the house. Some of these included ducks, chickens, goats,
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Is There a Doctor in the House?
The prophet Jeremiah like Isaiah is regarded as one of the greatest prophets of his time for good reason. He prophesied to the people of Judah, the southern kingdom through
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But for the Grace of God
Paul’s letters to Timothy and Titus together are known as the Pastoral Letters because they deal primarily with church governance and leadership. Timothy was probably Paul’s most trusted and loyal
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Did You Count the Cost?
Many of us can testify to having entered a project or undertaken a venture and end up regretting it in the long run. Most of the time we would conclude
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Who Needs More Turbulence and Strife?
I don’t think that many of us would disagree with the common view that many people have that our world is undergoing great turbulence and strife. I think the evidence
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What is True Worship
The prophet Isaiah who is regarded as one of Israel’s greatest prophets, lived and prophesied in the eighth century B.C. at a time when Judah and its sister nation Israel
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