by Pastor Christopher Bartell | Mar 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Then one of the Twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests. ‘What will you give me’, he said, ‘to hand him over to you? They settled the deal with him at thirty pieces of silver. From that moment on, he was watching for an opportunity to hand him over....
by Pastor Christopher Bartell | Dec 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
‘If the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he’ll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself. When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered...
by Pastor Christopher Bartell | Dec 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
‘Having something to look forward to is essential for the human soul (Tony D. Vick).’ Reading: ‘In days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; all the nations shall stream to...
by Pastor Christopher Bartell | Dec 2, 2020 | Advent Reflections
‘In those moments when life and the world are in the most turmoil, that is when we must keep watch for God’s surprising presence. That moment of hopelessness or need or fear is the moment when holy grace and justice makes themselves known (Claire Brown).’ Reading:...