by Mary Leslie Racine | Feb 9, 2025 | Firm Foundation |
Love God and Love People. We see this saying a lot in the Christian world. We see it on t-shirts, tote bags, coffee mugs, and lots of other places. In the passages we read today, Matthew 22:34-40 and Mark 12:28-34, we see how to live out this saying. First, we have...
by Mary Leslie Racine | Mar 25, 2024 | Lent, Love God Greatly Posts |
I cannot imagine what this scene must have been like to witness it in person. Here you have the very Son of God riding on a donkey. I love the response of the people. First, they put a cloak on the donkey, and then they place their cloaks on the road. This does not...
by Mary Leslie Racine | Mar 4, 2024 | Lent, Love God Greatly Posts |
What does it mean to repent? This is a question I ask myself on a regular basis. What does it mean, and what does it actually look like in my day-to-day life? Every month in the children’s department of our church, they have a foundational question that they ask and...
by Mary Leslie Racine | Jan 29, 2024 | Love God Greatly Posts, Set Apart |
This passage begins with Jesus calling the disciples to Him and using what just happened as a teachable moment for them. In order to really understand this passage, we need to back up a few verses. James and John approach Jesus and ask Him to let them sit by His side...
by Mary Leslie Racine | Dec 8, 2023 | Love God Greatly Posts, The Promised Messiah (Advent 2023) |
Praise the Lord that we have a Redeemer who lives and who will one day stand upon the Earth! Jesus, our Redeemer, is alive. I think about Luke 24:1-10 when Luke describes how the women went to the tomb at early dawn where they found the tomb empty. Verse two says,...