I just posted a Thanksgiving message that I'll preach tonight at our community Thanksgiving service. Titled Smile, It's Thanksgiving! it's a brief message based on Philippians 4:4-9 where Paul encourages us to "rejoice always." I hope your Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of good food, friends, family, and smiling! Happy Thanksgiving!
Elijah’s story reminds us that God meets us in the cavern of our own despair and discouragement and changes everything.
The word Trinity never appears in Scripture, and yet the whole arc of the Bible bends toward this deep wonder: God is not solitary. God is relational. God is love.
The same Spirit that reversed Babel, fulfilled ancient promises, and launched the early church is still moving today - creating understanding where there's confusion, building bridges where there are walls, and reminding us that we're all part of one magnificent, ongoing story.
Most of us grew up thinking Christianity was about following Jesus – being good, following rules, trying our best to live like he did. But here, Jesus reveals something deeper. He's inviting us into the family circle, into the very heart of divine love itself.