In a world driven by performance, we are entirely accustomed to getting exactly what we earn. But when it comes to our standing before God, the economy of "wages" is a terrifying reality—as St. Paul reminds us in Romans 6, the wages of sin is death. Left to...
A common urban myth about Christian origins sometimes gets passed around when people talk about the Bible is that no one can really know what the Bible says since the translations we have now are just translations of older translations. The Bible says that all of...
We are all born with an innate sense of fairness. While that sense can be the foundation for human justice, our broken hearts often twist "fairness" into an ego-centric trap: envy. In this message based on Matthew 20:1-16, we dive into Jesus’ Parable of the...
As Jesus easts with tax collectors and sinners he tells the Pharisees that he has not come to call the righteous but sinners, implying that the pharisees do not recognize that they are sinners. Liturgist and Preacher: Dr. George Gude; Reader: William Ellington and Dr....
The Bible teaches that at the end of this current age, when Jesus returns, God will finally and eternally judge all people. But what is the actual basis of that judgment? What does it have to do with our lives right now? And how can we know where we stand? For...
