Grace and peace to you, from God our Father, and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. “I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you.” Paul is writing to the church in Philippi, the same church he founded years earlier. We heard about Paul’s time in Philippi, when we read Acts a few weeks ago. Remember Paul was arrested, and put in prison there, too. This letter was written years later when Paul was again i

Grace and peace to you, from God our Father, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. This is our last week in the book of Acts. Most scholars believe that the author of Luke’s Gospel also wrote this book. This week, we join Paul in Athens. Paul, Timothy, and Silas have been traveling and sharing the story of Jesus’s death and Resurrection at synagogues as they travel, with mixed results. Some people were eager to hear their story of God’s love; others were not. Paul is in

Grace and peace to you, from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. This morning, we have a reading from Acts 16. Paul and Silas have been traveling together, sharing the story of Jesus. This morning, we see them in Philippi, preaching and teaching, when Paul is upset by a slave girl who was possessed with a demon. She was following Paul, and shouting to all who would listen, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you a way of salvatio

Grace and peace to you, from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. When I read and studied this week's readings, I kept thinking how different Peter and Paul were. And yet, both were called by Jesus to lead the disciples and make disciples at the beginning of Christianity. Before he met Jesus, Peter was a fisherman – uneducated, but hard working – and he was pretty successful. Peter and his brother were in business with the Zebedee family, James and John