by Pastor Rhode | Aug 25, 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 Epistle Lesson just read, from Romans 11 and 12. We begin with prayer. Dear fellow disciples of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ: In the Gospel...
by Pastor Rhode | Aug 25, 2014 | Devotions
“These all look to You, to give them their food in due season. When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are filled with good things. When You hide Your face, they are dismayed; when You take away their breath, they die and...
by Pastor Rhode | Aug 22, 2014 | Devotions
“John answered, ‘Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your Name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.’ But Jesus said to him, ‘Do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you.'” Luke...
by Pastor Rhode | Aug 21, 2014 | Devotions
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating...
by Pastor Rhode | Aug 20, 2014 | Devotions
“For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease...