Christ's Mind in Us by Dan McClain (1/20/2017)...d we all need hope.<!--more-->
The readings appointed for this Sunday are full of hope in God’s work through us. Isaiah (9:1–4) prophecies that Galilee will be the site in which God’s glory becomes apparent to the nations. Isaiah describes that glory as a great light that will emerge from the darkness, as a cause for rejoicing amongst those who are in anguish, and as a relief from oppression an...
God of the Living by Dan McClain (11/2/2016)... people of Thessalonica, to Jesus’s re-orientation of the Sadducees' question about marriage in the resurrection—these passages simultaneously challenge and assure the Christian, especially the Christian in the midst of personal, social, and/or political turmoil.
Above all, in these passages, we are challenged to become a people of Life, of the Living God. We are assured, having become a people...