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Weekly reflections on the scriptures from our Worship Services at Roser Church, Anna Maria, Florida.
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For God’s ancient people, Passover is a powerful celebration of His saving grace, a reminder that He has delivered captives for many generations. As we enter our new Sanctuary, we continue to celebrate that same grace, which still saves us from our own forms of captivity.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
Building programs are never completed without obstacles. Not everyone in Judah’s region was rejoining in their new Sanctuary. God intervened, however, to ensure that their worship continued. His actions will inspire us as we face our own versions of opposition.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
When the foundation of the new temple was completed, God’s people again gathered to worship with both joy and tears. Re-entering a Sanctuary can compel strong emotions, as we reflect on what God has done, is doing and will do. Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
As a first step in their ancient rebuilding effort, God’s people completed an altar. For the first time in years, the people could offer the sacrifices that their God required. This opportunity to give back to God powerfully inspired their first act of renewed worship. Will our opportunity to worship here inspire a similar response?Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
After decades of captivity, God moved the ruler of an empire to set His people free, so they could return to their Promised Land. This sovereign act of God should inspire us to respond to His call and return to a place of worship.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
Sometimes life makes us choose between grace and truth. Can we be gracious while we hold evil doers accountable? Does grace allow us to differ about matters of truth? In Jesus, truth and grace are fully revealed, empowering us to be both truthful and gracious.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
Unlike the gods of myth who are partially divine and partially human, Jesus is both fully God and fully human. As both Son of God and Son of Man, He offers a meaningful way to restore our relationships with both our Heavenly Father and one another.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
When God started His family in the Garden, there was a man and a woman who had two sons. That family fell apart, however, and countless generations later, brothers were still killing brothers. Then Jesus comes to bring the family back together.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
The story in Genesis tells us that God creates light, separating it from darkness. John’s story develops that truth, reminding that Jesus is that light that scatters the darkness in our lives and in our world.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
John’s Gospel begins with a creation story that has a new twist. He assures us that Jesus was there, “in the beginning”. He engages with us well before He is born in a Bethlehem stable. What difference does this make in our lives? Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
A solid trust in God can quiet storms. We will still have them. They will still knock us about. However, they can also drive us deeper into the safest place on earth, our awareness of the sovereign, loving and vigilant presence of God among us.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
God is not an unknown entity. He has been revealing Himself for generations. As we hear and remember these stories from the past, they inform our expectations for the future.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
God responds to evil in ways we don’t always understand. Does this mean He is not responding at all? Maybe the way He responds to evil should inspire our response to the broken world around us.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
Thinkers for thousands of years have asked why God allows evil people to prosper. Habakkuk adds his complaint to this list. What does this inspired complaint tell us about ourselves, our world and our God?Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
Lawyers are told never to ask a witness a question publically, if they do not already know the answer. Habakkuk did not follow that advice. God gives an answer that changed the prophet’s world view. What does this response teach us about our own world view?Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
The prophet, Habakkuk, was a good man who had some serious questions about his good God, who, at the moment, did not seem very good. Do such questions help us? Do they matter to God?Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
The connection between hearing and doing is often tenuous. Often we do not translate words into action unless something convincing happens. We can either go through the motions and pretend to care, or we can own our failures and, through God’s restoring power, we can become genuinely better people.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
Winning matters, unless you are playing the wrong game. Finishing first is finishing last if you are running in the wrong direction. Paul argues that we should clarify what we are aiming for, before we take off after it.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
While the world falls apart, it is easy to accuse and assign blame; however, then we are simply part of the problem. Truly helpful and caring people move on to the next stage and help people to discover a new, healing way of life. Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
Without a sense of urgency, we seldom choose to change. Unless we view ourselves drowning, we will not recognize our rescuer. Paul sounds the alarm about a world that is perishing from a lack of God’s ways, and we will serve our world best if we see it through those eyes.Visit us at app.dirkscorner.com to download the app
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