What Does It Mean to Serve God?

Gathering with other Christians is a crucial way to encourage and be encouraged in Christ. But do we really need to gather every week? 

Jesus endured unspeakable agony at the cross. Pastor John marvels at the force of his love sustained by expectant joy. 

Is the Bible accessible only to readers with a high IQ? Pastor John reframes biblical maturity as a moral issue centered on our obedience, not our intellect. 

The Book of Joshua provokes us to consider one of the most important questions of the spiritual life- whom will you serve? Will it be the Lord or some other concern? Making something finite the ultimate concern of one's life is a grave spiritual predicament. Only is the Lord is u ... Show More

How do we give God everything? It's obvious from the stories throughout the Scriptures that God is asking us to give him everything but is He also calling us to "sell everything and give alms to the poor" as he asks of the rich young man? Today, Fr. Mike helps us make the distinc ... Show More

We all want to be used by God in big ways. But how will God use us to do something big if we aren't obedient to Him in the basics?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Mark 12:13-17. What Does God Require is an age old question that many of us tend to struggle with. After all, there is teachings for and against just about every act in the Bible. Today, we are going to look at a story where the religious leaders tried to trap Jesus in His words. ... Show More

<p>Friends, for this Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, our first reading from the marvelous book of Wisdom presents an old biblical trope: If you were to ask God for something, or if God were to come to you and say he will give you whatever you want—what would you ask for? T ... Show More