by gary.pierce | Feb 19, 2026 | Reflections
We often think of “temptation” as a pull toward a specific “bad” thing—a lie, a moment of anger, or a selfish desire. But if we look at the sweep of Scripture for this Sunday, from the first garden to the Judean wilderness, we find that every...
by gary.pierce | Feb 19, 2026 | Reflections
We live in an age of information overload, but we are starving for wisdom. We can recite facts about God, but do we actually know God? The Scriptures for this Sunday, from the crags of Mount Sinai with Moses to the heights of the Mount Tabor with the Transfiguration,...
by gary.pierce | Feb 2, 2026 | Reflections
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus doesn’t say, “Try your best to become salt” or “One day, if you work hard, you might be light.” He says, “You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world.” It is a...
by gary.pierce | Jan 26, 2026 | Reflections
There is a phrase that has echoed through the centuries of the Church: being a “Fool for Christ.” To the world, “wisdom” looks like power, accumulation, status, and winning. But the scriptures for this Sunday present us with a different kind of...
by gary.pierce | Jan 18, 2026 | Reflections
As we enter this weekend with Christ, our Scripture readings take us on a journey from the heavy shadows of Galilee to the bright, bustling shores where Jesus began his ministry. We often hear the phrase “fishers of men” or “fishers of people,”...
by gary.pierce | Jan 18, 2026 | Reflections
Introduction: The Kitchen Table Moment In the late night of January 1956, a young preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. sat at his kitchen table in Montgomery, Alabama. He was exhausted. His house had been threatened, his family was in danger, and he felt like he had...
