by afladmin | Jun 10, 2025
By: The Rev. Dr. W. Ross Blackburn Abortion is perhaps the most polarizing “issue” in American life today. Given the stakes, it is understandable. It also gets to the very heart of what it means to live before God. Sin is, essentially, “me, at your expense,” while...
by afladmin | Jun 10, 2025
By: The Rt. Rev. William Wilson “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; … I will not listen; your hands are...
by afladmin | Jun 10, 2025
By: The Rev. Keith Allen Life is often hard and full of temptations, trials and troubles. We see in each of the lectionary texts today that God’s people find themselves in trouble, but God brings life and redemption from these troubles. God brought Israel out of...
by afladmin | Jun 10, 2025
By: The Rev. Dr. W. Ross Blackburn The above passage is one of the servant songs in Isaiah that describe the coming messiah. What I find interesting, and helpful, is how he is described as two things: one who speaks as one who has been taught, and one who is able to...
by afladmin | Jun 10, 2025
By: The Rev. Dr. W. Ross Blackburn Justice is somewhat of a wax nose in our culture. Everybody is for it, but we can’t seem to agree on what it is. Pro-life people rightly see the protection of the fatherless and the widow—in our day the unborn and their mothers—as an...