Sep 22, 2023

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. (Colossians 3:15).

I recall reading a storybook to my young children in which a child tags along with a fire truck and gets very dirty at the scene of a fire. So dirty, her dad does not even recognize her when...

Sep 21, 2023

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.  From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. (Ephesians 4:15-16)

The first half of...

Sep 20, 2023

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).

What brings you comfort? Sitting in your favourite...

Sep 19, 2023

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. (1 John 4:10-12)

One of the...

Sep 18, 2023

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms (1 Peter 4:10).

Last week, we began a four-week series growing out of the Vibrant Congregations Conversation that Immanuel Christian Reformed church had over the summer. The first week...