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Waiting with Lamps Lit
When you get home, you should flip to Matthew 25 and just write in the margins “2020 Election Week.”
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Wesley Arning
Nov 1, 20208 min read
The Invisible Church
Because of the power of the Holy Spirit, believers were now grafted and assimilated into the spiritual Body of Christ. Remember Paul likens
Wesley Arning
Oct 25, 20207 min read
An Expert in Love
He is the supposed expert asking a question to the Author and Giver of the Law and Commandments he’s studied all these years.
Wesley Arning
Oct 11, 20209 min read
The Messianic Banquet
But Jesus takes it even a step further; if the invited guests won’t come then the party is open to the street people, the common folks, the
Wesley Arning
Oct 4, 20207 min read
God of the Vineyard
But notice here that the produce of the field is fine—there is no mention of wild grapes. In this case, it’s the delivery system that is mal
Wesley Arning
Sep 27, 20208 min read
Wreaths of Empire: The Idolatry of Politics
Everything that had gone wrong and would go wrong in the human project was ultimately rectified on Good Friday and vindicated on Easter
Wesley Arning
Sep 13, 20208 min read
Meeting Castro in Heaven
There is a rule of life that Jesus is giving us through this story: If you have been forgiven, you are then to forgive. Another way of sayin
Wesley Arning
Sep 6, 20207 min read
Sheep That Bite: Conflicts in the Church
Human relationships are fraught with conflict, and sadly the church is not immune. Sheep will bite, it’s in their nature. In the same way,
Wesley Arning
Aug 30, 20208 min read
St. Peter & The Enneagram
Jesus sees Peter in this moment as ignorantly opposed to the will of God. By resisting Jesus’ words and even trying to control or correct
Wesley Arning
Aug 16, 20209 min read
Tough Words from Coach Jesus
Today like a good baseball coach Jesus has some challenging words for people who approach him and we see two very different reactions.
Wesley Arning
Aug 2, 20207 min read
Feeding Our 5,000
Jesus shows us that he is Lord even of our physical needs. We see that Jesus doesn’t just care about our prayer life or simply “spiritual
Wesley Arning
Jul 26, 20208 min read
The Cosmic Love of God
We were loved into existence and we were loved into salvation.
We come to know that the Cosmic love of God conquers all, even the Powers of
Wesley Arning
Jul 19, 20208 min read
The Powers of Sin & Death in Romans 8
To even begin to understand what Paul is saying here we must realize that he sees Sin and Death not merely as things that humans do or what
Wesley Arning
Jul 12, 20208 min read
Eat the Book
In this case, faithful listening is what is required of us. Remember, God’s word is active and will not return to him empty.
Wesley Arning
Jun 28, 20207 min read
Jeremiah & Confirmation Bias
What Jeremiah’s unpopular and yet prophetic witness shows us is that what’s easy for us to hear may not be what we need to hear. What we wan
Wesley Arning
Jun 21, 20208 min read
Jesus the Great Divider
Jesus is the Great Divider who unites us to himself. And there are three specific ways that he divides us: he divides us from the world, fro
Wesley Arning
Jun 14, 20207 min read
The Harvest & A Labor Shortage
The Church’s mission into the harvest field is borne out of Jesus’ compassion for people. He looked at them and loved them.
Wesley Arning
Jun 7, 20205 min read
Collective Sin & Trinitarian Unity
Even though we can look across our country, and across the world, and see how the human family is divided, the Trinitarian God is united.
Wesley Arning
May 31, 20207 min read
Pentecost with Lewis & Clark
We cannot canoe up a mountain, instead, we will have to adapt to our situation: to hold on to the essentials, to let some things go
Wesley Arning
May 24, 20207 min read
The Ascension
They understood that heaven and earth were two halves of God’s created world: two different yet interlocking dimensions of the creation.
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