Scripture: Luke 1:5-24 and 57-79 Sermon Our book study this fall was Walter Wink’s “The Powers that Be” In that book, written in the early 90’s, Wink referred to what he called “the Domination System” to describe the world we live in with its hierarchies based on...

Take a minute to study the painting on your bulletin of John the Baptist It was painted for a monastery church in the Netherlands by Dutch artist Geertgen tot Sint Jans in the late 1400’s Chin in hand, alone by the Jordan River, he looks pretty dejected! The...

Scripture: John 18:28-38 Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover. 29 So Pilate went out to them and...