by Pastor Rhode | Jan 17, 2014 | Devotions
“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter...
by Pastor Rhode | Jan 16, 2014 | Devotions
“Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats. It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. The faith that...
by Pastor Rhode | Jan 15, 2014 | Devotions
“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also...
by Pastor Rhode | Jan 14, 2014 | Devotions
“A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one’s right hand.” Proverbs 27:15,16 Devotional Thought For The Day Obviously it is completely futile and frustrating...
by Pastor Rhode | Jan 13, 2014 | Sermons
Introduction: Grace be to you and peace, from God our Father, and from our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. Our text is the Old Testament Lesson just read, from Is. 42. We begin with prayer. Dear fellow disciples of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ: As Jesus began...