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Bible: Delight in God’s handiwork

“Praise the Lord, sun and moon and all you shining stars!” Psalms 104 and 148 are different from the three psalms we have studied earlier

Reta Halteman Finger

January 16, 2017

Bible: Overflowing pastures, joyful hills

No doubt some Sunday school attenders will brave ice or snow in order to discuss Psalm 65, where “valleys deck themselves with grain”! This should

Reta Halteman Finger

January 2, 2017

Bible: Celebrate creation and Creator

“Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy!” Our texts for the five Sundays in January are psalms. The one theme that

Reta Halteman Finger

December 19, 2016

Bible: Saviors and forerunners

The story announcing the birth of John the Baptist begins in Luke 1:5. Both Zechariah the priest and his wife, Elizabeth, lived “blamelessly according to

Reta Halteman Finger

December 5, 2016

Bible: Two blessed mothers in Israel

What was Mary thinking, on what seemed like an ordinary day as she went about her household duties feeding the animals or spinning wool? How

Reta Halteman Finger

November 21, 2016

Bible: Come, all who thirst

Water. The source of life. We need it to survive: to drink, to water the plants we eat. From our very beginnings we rely on

Meghan Florian

November 7, 2016

Bible: Holy city: heaven on earth

Revelation 21 begin with the promise of newness: “a new heaven and a new earth,” according to John, who delivers these visions to us. The

Meghan Florian

October 24, 2016

Bible: A Savior who knows our weakness

Heb. 4:14-5:10 discusses Jesus’ role as high priest, emphasizing his divinity as one who has “passed through the heavens.” This divine focus is also turned

Meghan Florian

October 10, 2016

Bible: The high priest and the foundation

Heb. 1:1-9 sets the tone for the entire letter to the Hebrews with its focus on Christ, the great high priest. God “has spoken to

Meghan Florian

September 26, 2016

Bible: A prophet with swagger

I like to listen to music when I work. My favorite Spotify playlist is called “Not Scared.” It’s a collection of songs by confident women

Meghan Florian

September 12, 2016

Bible: We won’t weep forever

Isaiah is a prophetic book, and these passages revel in describing what is to come for God’s people, a time when the earth will be

Meghan Florian

August 29, 2016

Bible: Boundary-shattering generosity

The key to understanding Paul’s wrestling with the “what about Israel?” question in the Book of Romans is to recognize that he concludes with a

Ted Grimsrud

August 15, 2016

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