Intersections

Hallelujah! I didn’t hear you - hallelujah! I just needed to get a few more in there this morning, it’s a great morning!  It’s been pretty quiet around since Friday night - and all day Saturday, but here we are… Jesus is risen! Hallelujah! Thank you all for being here on what seems to be the second-most popular day of the year, since the marketing machines haven’t found a way to monetize this holiday - yet.  Anyway - We have our familiar story… Luke is a classic text that I’m sure most of you are familiar with, and if not, then… I hope you enjoy this sermon I’ve prepared for you today, and hopefully it may inspire you to want to come back next week.  So we start out early in the morning, when it may have still been dark or light was just breaking over the horizon, kind of makes you think of the story of creation. Although Jesus was dead, God still commanded the sun to rise. God raised Adam and Eve out of the dirt, and raised them up in their image, as it say...

  April is here, and I am ready for it! I don’t care how many showers there will be, I’m just ready for those May flowers. We are witnesses to the changing of the seasons, and how faithful God is in bringing those to us. It may not happen on our schedule, or even when the calendar tells us it’s going to happen, but regardless, our world will SPRING FORTH and bear all the life that it is given for the lively warm months ahead.  Our sermon series this month beginning after Easter will be called “We Are Witnesses”, and it’s a reminder that we witness all the glory that God provides us in our lives, whether we actually see it or not. Our scripture will come from the book of Acts, starting in chapter five. We skip through the book, according to the lectionary, and end on the last Sunday of May in chapter sixteen. The Book of Acts is an extension of the Gospel of Luke, who we have been studying this Lenten season, and is an important book for the fact that it details where the churc...