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We say that Jesus came in the fullness of time, but what does that really mean? Isaiah's prophecy calls for a voice in the wilderness to prepare the way for the Lord. When we look at the world in Jesus' time, we see how it was uniquely positioned for the maximum impact of His arrival. We see that the world was using a common language which ( Read more... )

As we begin to clean up the mess around us as we prepare for company coming, we realize that this is too massive a project for any one person to take on themselves. We need a crew to help clean up this mess. In the time of Jesus, John the Baptist was part of the crew helping prepare hearts and minds to receive Jesus the Messiah, and he was a ( Read more... )

Humility in the modern era has been twisted to mean something that it did not mean when the Bible was written. Nowadays it means to do something for someone in order to gain their favor for a later time. But Jesus modelled true humility for us by becoming a man and dying for us, His creation. When Paul exhorts the church in Philippi (and us as ( Read more... )

It seems like everyone today wants justice where it is deserved, except when it comes to themselves. Then they cry out for mercy. To the outside it seems that justice fails when it comes to Grace, but in today's podcast we will see how grace, especially God's grace, is impossible without justice.

Recorded at Hudson UMC on June 12, 2016

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You know, sometimes when God places a calling to ministry upon our hearts, our first reaction is simply, "Oh I can't do that. I'm not qualified, I'm not good enough, I'm not smart enough, I simply can't do that." This is the objection that Moses presents to God today in our series, The Five Objections of Moses, preached in September of 2013. ( Read more... )

Ambition is a human quality and at times it can be an admirable trait. After all, if someone does not strive to better themselves they become stagnant or slide back into oblivion. But when it comes to the Kingdom of God, ambition, Jesus tells us, is not a characteristic to be desired. In today's reading we meet James and John, two brothers who ( Read more... )