God is love. For many that sums up the core of the Christian faith. God is love, so we should love God and we should love one another. Jesus doesn’t make many explicit commands in the Bible, but he makes one in our reading Read more →

Today’s reading from scripture involves one of the leaders of the early church, a man named Philip, and his encounter with an Ethiopian eunuch. In order to get the full context of what’s going on, we need to backtrack a couple of Read more →

Some years ago, I spent part of my summer in China teaching English. I attended an evening worship service in a church in the city of Fuzhou. In one of the rooms of that church was a large picture on the wall of Jesus, with long Read more →

The text for this morning comes from the gospel according to Luke. Luke records that one of Jesus’ first resurrection appearances was to two of his followers on their way to Emmaus on that first Easter day. Jesus walked along with a Read more →