Christmas and New year Reflection
As this year closes and another draws near, now is a good time to take stock of where we are. As individuals and as a church.
Matthew 3:11-12
“I baptize you with water for repentance, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing …
Matthew 24:36
“But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.”
Luke 23:44-46
It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said …
Luke 20:27-33
Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us …
Luke 19:1-6
He entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was …
Luke 18:1
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.
Luke 17:17-19
Then Jesus asked, “Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? Was none of them found to return and …
Luke 16:19-31
“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his …
Luke 16:13
No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to …
Luke 15:1-3
Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling …
Philemon 10-12
I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment. Formerly he was useless to …