Cutlerville East Christian Reformed Church
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Investing in the Kingdom
A key theme here is stewardship. In Jewish thought (which has continued in Christian thought), God’s creation of the world makes every person a caretaker of what really belongs to God, whether created world, the spiritual gifts of in...
Elijah: Holding Steady in a Roller Coaster World
King Ahab takes evil to new heights and the people of Israel to new depths of sin. He married a pagan wife from Sidon, Jezebel. She hates God and his prophets, and Ahab puts her in charge of religion in Israel! Her agenda is to completely repla...
Judgment for a ‘Geep’
As we read this parable of Jesus and reflect on our own actions, how many would say they are 100% sheep? 100% goat? A mixture? When we truthfully evaluate our actions, it is hard to say with confidence that we are pure-bred sheep. There is alwa...
Elisha: Receiving a Spiritual Legacy
Every follower of Jesus Christ is where he or she is because someone passed on the torch of faith. Maybe it was parents, grandparents, a teacher, a Sunday School teacher, a youth leader, a pastor, a friend; somebody prayed, invested, loved, and...
The Resurrection and the Life
The final "passion parable" is not a story as much as an "acted parable" in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets. Jesus illustrates and gives evidence of being "the resurrection and the life" as he raises his friend Lazarus.Scripture...
Raised on the Third Day
In Luke's account of the Easter story, the followers of Jesus were challenged to remember important prophesies of the Old Testament. In all 3 segments of the story, they are questioned, sometimes even reprimanded about their failure to see the ...
Lost and Found
Jesus spent much of his time browsing over the lost and found table of Israel (that was why God sent him, he says). But there were a few who saw this and murmured: why do you spend so much time with all that junk? Hookers, crooked IRS agents, A...
We Prodigals
Luke 15:11-32 is extremely familiar to us, and sometimes familiarity makes us miss things. This parable, which we call the Prodigal Son, would have sent absolute shock waves into the people who heard Jesus telling it. It is so packed with...
Pursuing Spiritual Authenticity
Every generation has their moment: "where were you when _______ happened?" For many years it was November 22, 1963 the day President John F Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas. His assassination paralyzed the nation, especially since ...
The Other Prodigal
In Jesus' day, "big brother" might have referred to the Pharisees, at least some of the more legalistic of them who were watching, looking down their noses, and casting judgment on "sinners". Their definition of "sinner" was "law breaker"...
Ezekiel: When God Leaves
Have you ever felt that God has left you? You may not admit it out loud, but it sure feels that way: nothing's going right; the heavens are brass; you feel abandoned. What happens when God leaves (or appears to)? God wants to ...