Lucas 2:25-35 Queridos amigos en Cristo, Normalmente, cuando pensamos en lo que significa tener una muerte pacífica, pensamos en una persona mayor acostada en su cama diciendo: "Señor, estoy listo para ir a casa". Hoy quiero compartir con ustedes un tipo de historia diferente. Es una historia real que escuché
Continue readingLuke 2:25-35 Dear friends in Christ, Normally when we think of what it means to die a peaceful death, we think of an elderly person laying on his or her bed saying, “Lord, I’m ready to go home.” Today I want to share with you a different kind of story.
Continue readingIsaiah 9:2-7 I’m going to preach on this text as if I were looking at it from an airplane about 20,000 feet in the air so as to get the big picture. Perhaps on a normal Sunday I would go into the finer details, but that’s not really the reason
Continue readingLucas 1:26-38 Según el Dr. Gary Chapman existen cinco "lenguajes del amor" que los humanos usan para dar y recibir amor: palabras de afirmación, tiempo de calidad, recepción de regalos, actos de servicio y contacto físico. ¿Cuál es el tuyo? Diría que el mío es probablemente tiempo de calidad. No
Continue readingLuke 1:26-38 According to Dr. Gary Chapman there exist five “love languages” humans use to give and receive love: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. Which is yours? I would say that mine is probably quality time. It is not that I don’t
Continue reading1 Tesalonicenses 5:16-24 Estamos a doce días de la Navidad. ¿Ya te parece que es Navidad? El lunes pasado organizamos una reunión de pastores aquí en la iglesia. Cada mes, los pastores luteranos del Condado Lake se reúnen para estudiar la Biblia. El pastor de Zion nos guió en el
Continue reading1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 We are twelve days away from Christmas. Does it feel like Christmas to you yet? Last Monday we hosted an area pastors’ meeting at Immanuel. Every month the Northern Circuit gathers together for Bible study and fellowship. Pastor Schubert walked us through a study of this particular
Continue readingMarcos 1:1-8 Marcos comienza apropiadamente su Evangelio con la palabra "comienzo". Dice: "Comienzo del evangelio de Jesucristo, el Hijo de Dios" (v. 1). Quiero dedicar un poco de tiempo a desempacar esta frase porque es fundamental para todo lo demás que voy a decir. No es sólo que esta sea
Continue readingMark 1:1-8 Mark appropriately begins his Gospel with the word “beginning”. He says, “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God)” (v. 1). I want to spend some time unpacking this sentence because it is foundational to everything else I am going to say. It is
Continue readingPsalm 24 Psalm 24 is part of a group of five psalms that share a common theme of God’s protective shepherding of his people. The most famous of these shepherding psalms is Psalm 23: “The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want.” We are all familiar with Psalm 23,
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