From the Garden of Eden on humans have tried to dethrone God. As a response, God becomes one of us. By doing this, God forgives us and heals us so that we can begin to look like God in ways we never could in our rebellion against him. Readings and sermon were...
St. James has contracted with LCEF (Lutheran Church Extension Fund) to facilitate our VisionPath process. The intention of the VisionPath process is to clarify the purpose of our church with the goal of creating a one sentence guiding statement by seeking God’s...
Jesus intentionally delays going to Lazarus' sickbed because he wants to wait until he's dead so that he can heal him. Knowing he's going to heal him doesn't mean he takes his friend's death lightly though – Jesus is deeply affected and moved...
To be "in the Spirit", according to St. Paul in Romans 8:1-11, means living under the final verdict of not guilty, living a life of fulfillment of God's righteous requirement, and living with the guarantee of future resurrection. Readings and sermon were...
The final chapter in the story of the Bible (in other words – the story of human history) is God coming to live with his people on the new earth. God's goal was never to take a disembodied people up to live with him in heaven, but to come and live with us on...
Jesus conversation with the Samaritan woman should never have happened – it just wasn't appropriate. But Jesus ignored the appropriate to rescue the lost person hidden behind the cultural barriers that imprisoned her and kept her from redemption. He does the...
