Monthly Archives: January 2019

Matthew 13:36-43 You never know what a day may bring in your life.  You never know what kind of events or people that you will be dealing with.  Jesus had to explain the parable of the wheat and weeds to his disciples in our scripture lesson.  “The Son of Man is the farmer who plants the good seed.  The field is the world and the good seed represents the people of the kingdom.  The weeds are the people who belong…..

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Matthew 7:24-28 Have you made any resolutions that 2019 will be different for you than 2018?  In today’s scripture lesson Jesus teaches us why it is important to build on solid foundations.  “Anyone who listens to my teachings and follows is wise, like the person who builds a house on solid rock.  Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock.  But anyone…..

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Luke 2:25-35 Life is filled with surprises.  We all have had surprises that are good and we have had those that were bad.  Surprises are the things and events that happen to us that we can never anticipate in a day of our lives. On the eighth day in the life of Jesus he was taken by Mary and Joseph to the temple for their purification offering as required by the law of Moses.  Mary and Joseph were doing what…..

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