November 9, 2025

Our Lectionary readings for this Sunday are Haggai 1:15b-2:9; Psalm 98; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17; Luke 20:27-38. 

Every Sunday we confess our faith and each Sunday we come to the point where together we say, "I believe in the resurrection of the body." That confession was just a controversial in Jesus' day as it is ours. Jesus brings clarification to some matters when he responds to the Sadducees (who rejected belief in resurrection of the body). 

New Testament scholar Charles Cousar suggests that central to Jesus' response is "that God's future cannot be understood as an extension of our present existence. It is not the case that we can take what we like out of our current life, raise it to the nth power, and call it heaven. Resurrection entails transformation."

We will have a congregational meeting after the morning service on November 16,2025.