You are invited to join us for a Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols Service on Thursday, December 24th. The service will begin at 5:00 p.m. and will take place at the church building. We’ll celebrate the incarnation of our Savior Jesus Christ by hearing several Scripture passages and singing Christmas hymns from our hymnal. I’ll also bring a devotional message on the…
Posts from December 2020
When the angel of God appeared to Joseph in a dream to tell him that Mary was pregnant with a son conceived by the Holy Spirit, he told him to name the boy Jesus, “… for he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:22). What if the angel had left off the last three words and had only said to…
Of all the prophecies given to the people of Israel throughout the centuries, this one spoken by Isaiah to King Ahaz must have been among the most mysterious and wonderful: “… Behold, the virgin will conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (Isaiah 7:14). The Scripture records no obvious fulfillment of these words in the days of King…
You are welcome to join us at Mt. Rose on Sundays for in-person worship and Sunday School. Our Sunday worship service begins at 10 a.m., and the adult Sunday School class starts at 11:45 a.m. Currently, Elder Adam Gustavson is teaching a class on Christ in all of Scripture, using the book Walking with Jesus through His Word by Dennis Johnson. We’ll…
Now that we’ve entered the Advent season, I’m taking a break from preaching through Isaiah in order to preach a series of sermons on the incarnation and birth of Christ from the Gospel of Matthew. Last Sunday we looked at the genealogy that introduces the account of the birth of Jesus. To anyone familiar with the stories of the Old Testament, one…