Faith looks like knowing Christ, loving Christ, and trusting Christ in a way that is both active and growing.

We may be weak disciples or new disciples or struggling disciples, but we are all disciples.

We believe in freed will — that we have been freed to serve Christ and act as God’s children.

Jesus commands us to look beyond our own needs to actively serve people the way we’d like to be served — to love our neighbors as ourselves.

Many believers revel in their Christian liberty, while others shy away, worried that liberty too easily turns to license.

The icy cold hands of death reach out to all humanity, and humanity is enslaved to it. But the enslavement is not to death itself, but to the fear.

When children are born, they enter a dangerous world. Therefore, as we give our children in baptism, we are receiving a powerful gift of hope that God will be our child’s God.

Christmas is not over yet.

While our rushed, retail-driven culture wants to start the Christmas season in October and end it on Dec. 26, the traditional church calendar extends Christmas until Epiphany.

Have you ever prayed for A and gotten B? Maybe you have an A on your prayer list now, but B may come. It would be interesting to know what lessons you can learn from biblical verses that relate to the prayers of Job, Paul, the Philippians, and Jesus, all of whom asked for A and received B.

We should note the Scripture’s use of the word “fear” in two distinct senses. There is the fear of terror and dread, and the fear of veneration and honor.