Pastor Rick’s Study Notes: Matthew 2:21-23 Joseph obeyed. He got up, took the child and his mother, and reentered Israel. When he heard, though, that Archelaus had succeeded his father, Herod, as king in Judea, he was afraid to go there. But then Joseph was directed in a dream to go to the hills of…
Pastor Rick’s Study Notes: Matthew 2:12-21 12In a dream, they were warned not to report back to Herod. So they worked out another route, left the territory without being seen, and returned to their own country. The scholars were warned in a God-given dream. That they were warned may indicate more than one had the…
Pastor Rick’s Study Notes: 1Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God— 2the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David, 4and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed…
Pastor Rick’s Study Notes: First Reflections: Jesus moved from crowd to solitary place throughout Mark. Both were essential to his strategy to bring the Kingdom. In the “One Boy” narrative, these two strategies collide. Jesus takes his disciples away to pour into them and the crowds run after him. The five loaves and two fish…
How often do you and I get a chance to do life with someone from another world? This week’s outreach project with the All Nations Cafe reminded me that many of us don’t often get opportunities to sit down, eye-to-eye, with people not like us. We served and had lunch with Columbians, Ecuadorians, Romanians and…
