Posts from 2017

Week 1, November 26 – Zechariah – Luke 1:5-25 God had promised his special nation Israel that he would send his messiah, a savior, THE Savior. David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea, Micah, and Zechariah record prophetic promises about Jesus’ heritage, birth, life, identity, power, message, death, burial, and resurrection. But by the time Jesus came, God had been silent for 400 years. There had been no new prophetic words or messages for four centuries and many generations. The faithful among…

Radio Devotional on KSUN 103.5 Monday: Holy, Holy, Holy Good Monday Morning!  I’m Gill Robertson, one of the pastors at New Crossing Church.  I thought this week we could talk about hymns.  I grew up singing lots of hymns – in church every Sunday, sometimes in the morning and evening services.  But also we sang hymns at school.  We had an all-school assembly every morning at which one of the teachers would tell us the announcements for the day, the…

To Lent or Not to Lent? Next Wednesday (March 1) is Ash Wednesday, and that marks the beginning of Lent.  But what exactly is Lent? If you grew up in a Catholic or traditional protestant denomination, you may have been to an Ash Wednesday service and had ashes painted on your forehead in the sign of the cross.  You may have given up chocolate or movies or chewing gum during lent.  And you may have wondered what this was all…