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Wilderness WanderingsDoxology Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21) Doxology is a fitting place to end this season of Wilderness Wanderings. This will be the last of the devotions for a while—and certainly the last of mine (Pastor Anthony). Perhaps Wilderness Wanderings will continue in time, but before turning to the season of Lent tomorr...2025-03-0406 minWilderness WanderingsFarewell Sermon - 2 Samuel 7: Revelation This is the final sermon in our 2 Samuel series, and also Pastor Anthony’s final message as a pastor at Immanuel. The text is 2 Samuel 7 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the farewell worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses? Is God offering an invitation or a cha...2025-03-0235 minWilderness WanderingsBrought NearTherefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)—remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:11-13) Wilderness Wanderings will be wrapping up soon as I (Pastor Anthony) take a call to Ori...2025-02-1306 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - The Return of the King An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text comes from 2 Samuel 6 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses? Is God offering an invitation or a challenge to you through those words? Take time to pray abo...2025-02-0928 minWilderness WanderingsFaith that Choses Reproach By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward (Hebrews 11:24-26). Yesterday, Pastor Anthony ended his devotion on Moses’ parents with these lines, “Faith is not lived in the future, but in the present. By time heaven comes round—it’ll be too late t...2025-01-2905 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Two Ways to be King - 2 Samuel 2 An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text comes from Luke 2:8-20 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses? Is God offering an invitation or a challenge to you through those words? Take time to pray...2025-01-1231 min
Wilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Magi An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text comes from Matthew 2:1-12 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses? Is God offering an invitation or a challenge to you through those words? Take time to pray...2024-12-2924 min
Wilderness WanderingsA Man and a Woman of StandingOur text is from Ruth 2:10-13 At this, [Ruth] bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?” Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israe...2024-12-0906 min
Wilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Joseph & Mary An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The texts come from Matthew 1:18-25 & Luke 1:26-38 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses? Is God offering an invitation or a challenge to you through those words? Take tim...2024-12-0828 min
Wilderness WanderingsWhere is the Bread? Our text is from Ruth 1:6-13 While Naomi was in Moab, she heard that the Lord had helped his people. He had begun to provide food for them again. So, Naomi and her two daughters-in-law prepared to go from Moab back to her home. She left the place where she had been living. Her daughters-in-law went with her. They started out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah. Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Both of you go back. Each of you go to your own mother’s home. You were kind...2024-12-0306 minWilderness WanderingsOn Evil & Judgement For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless...2024-05-2905 minWilderness WanderingsAgape LoveFor this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. (2 Peter 1:5-7) Here we come to the end of the list of virtues that Peter puts out to us. Yesterday’s word was “Philadelphia,” the word for “brotherly/sisterly love” or “mutual affection” in our translation. Today’s word steps that up a notch by using the word for the highest form of love—that particularly Christian form of “uncondition...2024-05-2206 minWilderness WanderingsPhiladelphia For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection (2 Peter 1:5-7). Since the fall into sin, we have been faced with the question, “Where is your brother?” Intuitively, we know the answer. And yet with Cain, we often reply, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Genesis 4:9). This dark thread of sibling conflict weaves its way through the Old Testament. Consider the decades long feud between Esau and Jacob th...2024-05-2104 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Desire More An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The texts come from Matthew 6:1-4, from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses? Is God offering an invitation or a challenge to you through those words? Take time to pray...2024-05-1924 minWilderness WanderingsGodlinessFor this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness… (2 Peter 1:5-6) Today’s word is “godliness,” and it takes us right back to yesterday’s word of “perseverance.” In particular, it takes us back to the later section of this letter that Pastor Michael quoted yesterday, where Peter writes: “You ought to live holy and godly lives as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming” (2 Peter 3:11b-12a). We have a hope in Chris...2024-05-1706 minWilderness WanderingsPerseverance For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance (2 Peter 1:5,6). Following Jesus is not a good carrier move. Refusing to be involved in shady practices can cost us promotions. When we refuse to gossip around the proverbial water cooler, colleagues do not warm up to us. Refraining from excessive drinking can lead to defriending. Sometimes we are ostracised for mentioning our faith in Jesus. Following Jesus is costly. We make financial donations to the church and to other charities...2024-05-1605 minWilderness WanderingsSelf-ControlFor this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control… (2 Peter 1:5-6a) Self-Control is one of the few virtues in Peter’s list that lines up with Paul’s Fruit of the Spirit. It is undoubtably a good gift of God, but it can be a double-edged sword. Much like our discussion of “knowledge” yesterday, the danger is that self-control can “puff up” our pride and self-righteousness rather than “build up” others in love. If this is the case, then we’ve gone wrong somewhere. This list o...2024-05-1506 minWilderness WanderingsKnowledge Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness… For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge… For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:2,3,5,8). Returning to the list of virtues, we come to know...2024-05-1405 minWilderness WanderingsFaith & LoveFor this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. (2 Peter 1:5-9) At this start of this new week, an overview t...2024-05-1306 minWilderness WanderingsReverse FightingA Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text of Matthew 5:33-48. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca 1. How does the Ascension of Jesus impact our appreciation of this text? 2. How do you easily white-wash Jesus’ command, “do not swear an oath at all?” What can you do to move closer to keeping it? Does it bother you when th...2024-05-1235 minWilderness WanderingsAdd Goodness For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness… (2 Peter 1:5a). We are saved by grace through faith. Full stop. Read Ephesians 2:1-10 for the most pointed Biblical word on that. But grace does more than save, it also sanctifies. And sanctification requires our partnership. That is the way of God’s economy. We have been given everything we need for it. Not that we will become perfect in this life, but we will make progress, that is, if we put effort into it. As Paul writes about the fruit of the...2024-05-1005 minWilderness WanderingsDivine GivensHis divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. (2 Peter 1:3-4) This set of verses picks up right where we left off yesterday. Gifts, gifts, and more gifts. We are totally overrun by God’s gifts in these opening verses. We are given “everyt...2024-05-0906 minWilderness WanderingsAbundant Gifts Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours: Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord (2 Peter 1:1-2). Today, we begin a journey through 2 Peter, in part, because someone recently asked a question about 1:5. Wilderness Wanderings seems like a good venue to explore the answer. However, after the opening paragraph this letter gets into some wild and confusing content. That is another good reason to spend...2024-05-0805 minWilderness WanderingsHoly KissBrothers and sisters, pray for us. Greet all God’s people with a holy kiss. I charge you before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (1 Thessalonians 5:25-28) Kissing people who are not my family is not something I do. Or at least, it wasn’t until I met my wife. Now I regularly kiss friends and acquaintances as well. Why the change? Some of you may already know. Americans have no cultural practice of kissing people with whom you are n...2024-05-0706 minWilderness WanderingsDo Not Be Discouraged May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24). Out of baseball’s history comes this story: the game was tied with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. The batter stepped into the batting box and made the sign of the cross on home plate with his bat. Yogi Berra was behind the plate; he wiped it off with hi...2024-05-0604 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Single & Married An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The texts come from Matthew 5:27-32, from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses? Is God offering an invitation or a challenge to you through those words? Take time to pray...2024-05-0530 minWilderness WanderingsDo Not Quench the SpiritDo not quench the Spirit. Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil. (1 Thessalonians 5:19-22) Like the “pray continually” command of yesterday, the “do not quench the Spirit” command of today has had a habit of rattling around in church conversations in a way that usually sounds accusatory and produces a great deal of guilt. In particular, we tend to whip out this command as an accusation against other churches or believers when we feel like they’re not quite keeping step with the times, or w...2024-05-0306 minWilderness WanderingsJoy, Prayer, Thankfulness Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18). Yesterday, Pastor Anthony began his devotion by saying that Paul concludes this letter “by gathering up the letter’s contents—repeating them in a flurry of staccato commands that speak very directly and practically to the life of the church”. The material he covered is easily applied to the church as a Christian community, living out the Christian life in full view of the world. Its strange then, that today’s text is suddenly shr...2024-05-0205 minWilderness WanderingsWorking Out God's WorkNow we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you. Hold them in the highest regard in love because of their work. Live in peace with each other. And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else. (1 Thessalonians 5:12-15) Paul now...2024-05-0105 minWilderness WanderingsFly the Welcome Banner So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore encourage...2024-04-3005 minWilderness WanderingsPeace & SafetyNow, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to t...2024-04-2905 minWilderness WanderingsRise Up!A Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text of Isaiah 40:21-31. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca What does Isaiah 40:31 invite us to focus our efforts on – soaring, running, walking? 2. God is King (Psalm 47:2). List the descriptive words for God in the word KING. Read through the book of Esther and notice that these things do not describe Xe...2024-04-2831 minWilderness WanderingsHe is Coming! This agrees with what the Lord has said. When the Lord comes, many of us will still be alive. We tell you that we will certainly not go up before those who have died. The Lord himself will come down from heaven. We will hear a loud command. We will hear the voice of the leader of the angels. We will hear a blast from God’s trumpet. Many who believe in Christ will have died already. They will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them. We wi...2024-04-2605 minWilderness WanderingsWe Grieve with HopeBrothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. (1 Thessalonians 4:13-14) These are perhaps some of the more well known words from the book of 1 Thessalonians. I know I became aware of them in grade 7 after the death of my uncle. These are go-to words for funerals. S...2024-04-2506 minWilderness WanderingsYour Being Watched And do everything you can to live a quiet life. You should mind your own business. And work with your hands, just as we told you to. Then unbelievers will have respect for your everyday life. And you won’t have to depend on anyone (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12). Yesterday’s text encouraged the church to grow in the discipline of love. Christian charity always includes practical stuff like providing meals and offering transportation. Paul recognizes that this practice could be taken advantage of—some deciding to live off of the largess of others. Folks among the lower social classe...2024-04-2404 minWilderness WanderingsMore and MoreNow about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more… (1 Thessalonians 4:9-10) There is a similar pattern here to what Paul said about sexuality in yesterday’s devotion. It goes something like this: “you already do this in response to the teaching you have received—now do so more and more.” What’s different here i...2024-04-2305 minWilderness WanderingsPursue Holiness As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do...2024-04-2205 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Law & Reconciliation An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The texts come from Matthew 5:17-26, from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses? Is God offering an invitation or a challenge to you through those words? Take time to pray...2024-04-2131 minWilderness WanderingsMay God Do ItNow may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you. May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. (1 Thessalonians 3:11-13) Paul more often does this: pauses to pray in the middle of a letter marking a pivot between what came before...2024-04-1905 minWilderness WanderingsPraise the Lord! Our text is 1 Thessalonians 3:6-10 But Timothy has come to us from you just now. He has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have happy memories of us. He has also said that you desire to see us, just as we desire to see you. Brothers and sisters, in all our trouble and suffering your faith encouraged us. Now we really live because you are standing firm in the Lord. How can we thank God enough for you? We thank God because of all the joy we have...2024-04-1805 minWilderness WanderingsBetter than Life BECAUSE YOUR LOVE IS BETTER THAN LIFE, MY LIPS WILL GLORIFY YOU (PSALM 63:3). We have finished our series on Ephesians. Next week Lent begins, and Wilderness Wanderings will have something special this year. Between now and then Pastor Anthony and I will Wander to various places in the scriptures. Today, we meander over to Psalm 63. Jack Benny was a beloved entertainer. Though in real life he was an excellent violinist and a generous man, he often played comedic roles in which he was a terrible musician and an extreme penny-pincher. One of Benny's famo...2024-02-0804 minWilderness WanderingsGirding the Belt of Truth Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist… (Ephesians 6:14). Having planted our feet firmly on the ground, aware that we are in Christ, the Lord—surrounded and guarded not by our own might, but by His mighty power, let us get dressed up in the armour that our Father so gracious provides for us. And let us stand against the attacks of our enemy. The first piece armour is the belt of truth which we buckle around our waists. “Having girded your middles with truth” is a more accurate renderin...2024-01-2505 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - The Child, Representative of Humanity An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The texts come from Matthew 2:13-23, from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses? Is God offering an invitation or a challenge to you through those words? Take time to pray...2024-01-1427 min
Wilderness WanderingsThe Manger Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about” (Luke 2:13-15). As Luke tells us the story of Christ’s birth, many of the details may be lost on us. The story Pastor Anthony told us yesterday fits within...2023-12-2905 min
Wilderness WanderingsThere was No Room He [Joseph] went there [to Bethlehem] to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them (Luke 2:5-7). Theologian Stanley Hauerwas was once asked what the greatest threat to American Christianity was. His answer was surprising. It wasn’t atheism, radical Islam, civil religion, or consumerism. No, Hauerwas st...2023-12-2705 min
Wilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Authorized Ambassadors of the King - Advent 4 An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The texts come from Matthew 28:16-20, from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses? Is God offering an invitation or a challenge to you through those words? Take time to pray...2023-12-2429 min
Wilderness WanderingsSaved to Work God’s grace has saved you because of your faith in Christ. Your salvation doesn’t come from anything you do. It is God’s gift. It is not based on anything you have done. No one can brag about earning it. We are God’s creation. He created us to belong to Christ Jesus. Now we can do good works. Long ago God prepared these works for us to do (Ephesians 2:8-10). As Pastor Anthony mentioned yesterday, having shown us that “nothing can steal us out of God’s hand or out of the future with King Jesus”...2023-11-0606 min
Wilderness WanderingsThe Proof is in the Pudding I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe (Ephesians 1:18-19a). Its difficult to keep hope alive. Bad news abounds. Do Christians even have a right to be hopeful as chaos descends? Yesterday, Pastor Anthony answered that question with a resounding yes. Today, let’s dig deeper into that hope. But to do that, we need to take a st...2023-10-2706 min
Wilderness WanderingsOur Future is Secure In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s po...2023-10-2006 min
Wilderness WanderingsWe Belong In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation (Ephesians 1:11-13a). Thanks to Pastor Anthony for providing extra devotions while I was on vacation. He left on Tuesday to attend meetings in New Jersey. Our plan was...2023-10-1906 min
FHCRC Podcast2023 - 09 - 24 - September 24, 2023 - Pastor Anthony Elenbaas - Growing Up to Maturity2023 - 09 - 24 - September 24, 2023 - Pastor Anthony Elenbaas - Growing Up to Maturity by FHCRC Podcast2023-09-2424 min
Wilderness WanderingsSpirit Induced Confusion On Tuesday, while preparing this edition, I set the publication timer incorrectly and as a result it did not get released. I’m sorry. Let it remain as a lesson in waiting. So here it is. When the day of Pentecost came, all the believers gathered in one place. Suddenly a sound came from heaven. It was like a strong wind blowing. It filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw something that looked like fire in the shape of tongues. The flames separated and came to rest on each of them. All of t...2023-09-1405 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Follow Jesus An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Luke 9:57-62 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca Dive In Questions 1. What stands out to you from hearing these verses from Luke 9? 2. What is it about trees and human lives that are similar? What are some o...2023-08-2731 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Hard for the Rich An extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Galatians 3:23-5:12 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What stands out to you most from hearing these verses from Luke 18? 2. What kind of man was the ruler? What did he want or expect from J...2023-08-2028 minWilderness WanderingsGrow Up!And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the Lord and with people. (1 Samuel 2:26) And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. (Luke 2:52) To [his people] God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ. To this end I strenuously contend with all...2023-07-2506 minWilderness WanderingsPass it On! As God’s co-workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For he says, ‘In the time of my favour I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you’. I tell you, now is the time of God’s favour, now is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:1-2). Last Friday, Pastor Anthony reflected on Jesus’ authority to forgive sin. At the end of 2 Corinthians 5, Paul implores us to be reconciled with God, in other words, to accept the forgiveness of sins which God so freely offers in Christ. Having received, we are then...2023-07-1704 minWilderness WanderingsSincere LoveTo give your podcasters time for vacation, the following 10 weeks will include some Wilderness Wanderings Reruns. Certainly not every day, but often enough to give us space for spiritual rest. If you have tagged an episode as particularly meaningful for you, let us know so we can consider sending it out again. To follow up on Pastor Anthony’s reflection yesterday, here is a rerun rooted in Romans 12. Love must be sincere (Romans 12:9a). One might argue that this little phrase, “Love must be sincere”, is the heart of Romans 12. Everything that has come before--the stuff about personal...2023-06-2205 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Growing UpAn extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Matthew 13:1-23 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What do you usually do with or think about the familiar Parable of the Sower? 2. What kind of soil sample best describes your heart...2023-06-1835 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Boast in Nothing But the CrossAn extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings (a day late due to a technical mishap)! The text is Galatians 6 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What seems to be the trouble in your life that the grace of this passage from Galatians 6 meets today...2023-06-1232 minWilderness WanderingsThe Peace of God (1) The Lord is near! Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:5b-7). Many Christians have lived this text. You may know some of them. However, you may struggle with the guilt induced by too much anxiety. You feel that you do not measure up because of those anxious thoughts. Please believe me when I say you are not alone. Many Christians find the...2023-06-0606 min
Wilderness WanderingsA Prayer for Shalom The folks leading the Vibrant Conversations in our congregation this weekend did not prepare a devotion for us to share with you today. Instead, I want to pray Psalm 72 with you. It is likely that David prayed this prayer as he handed over the kingdom of Israel to his son Solomon. When we Christians use this psalm, we are praying for Solomon’s descendent, Jesus Christ. The prayer, ‘your kingdom come,’ is a succinct summary of this psalm. The devotions Pastor Anthony shared with us this week were about shalom. Here is a prayer for that sholom which Jesus came t...2023-06-0204 minWilderness WanderingsRighteousness, Confidence, Joy But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ… (Philippians 3:7-8). The first half of Philippians 3 is difficult to break up. There is a single thread that runs through it. Righteousness is one of the words Paul chooses to tie things together, even though joy and confidence are part of the glue. Since righteous surrounds ou...2023-05-1806 minWilderness WanderingsCircumcision of the Heart Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh… (Philippians 3:1-3). As Pastor Anthony mentioned yesterday, the opening words of this chapter echo the beginning of the letter. But they also appear to introduce the second ha...2023-05-1606 minWilderness WanderingsA Drink Offering But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. So, you too should be glad and rejoice with me (Philippians 2:17-18). We are still following Paul’s reflections on ‘working out your salvation with fear and trembling’. Or, as Pastor Anthony said yesterday, ‘working out what Christ has worked in’. As we have noted before, ‘in fear and trembling,’ does not mean nervous apprehension with which we face a judge when we are guilty of a crime. Rather...2023-05-1006 minWilderness WanderingsGospel Partnership “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others” (Philippians 2:3,4). Well, here it is. Both Pastor Anthony and I have more than hinted that this is the central message of the book. “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” But that is probably wrong. Paul is writing letters...2023-04-2806 minWilderness WanderingsA Christian Attitude towards Death “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body (Philippians 1:21-24). Pastor Anthony included the opening words of our text in his meditation yesterday. These verses in Philippians are worth extended reflection for the Christian living in...2023-04-2106 minWilderness WanderingsTo the Saints “Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all God’s holy people in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:1-2). Today, we begin a new series on Wilderness Wanderings. Pastor Anthony and I have decided to work through the book of Philippians with you. We will likely hit ever verse in this tightly packed letter to this New Testament church scattered throughout the city of Philippi. Like most of Paul’s letters, it begins by identify...2023-04-1106 min
Wilderness WanderingsOn Our Hearts “These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates” (Deuteronomy 6:6-9). There is an old story of a talented and gifted bloodhound in England that started a hunt by chasing a full-grown male deer. During the chase a fox cros...2023-04-0606 min
Wilderness WanderingsThe Second Covenant Word “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments” (Deuteronomy 5:8-10). God’s first word of covenant, which Pastor Anthony reflected on yesterday, addressed who we...2023-03-2107 min
Wilderness WanderingsHeart Work Only be careful and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb (Deuteronomy 4:9,10). Today’s text reminds us that we are in the season of Lent. Lent’s purpose is to set aside time for reflection on Jesus Christ—to consider his suffering and his sacrifice, his life, death, burial, and resurrection. This 40-day period is bas...2023-03-0206 min
Wilderness WanderingsGodly Sorrow Then you replied, “We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight, as the Lord our God commanded us.” So, every one of you put on his weapons, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country. But the Lord said to me, “Tell them, ‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you. You will be defeated by your enemies.’” So, I told you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the Lord’s command and in your arrogance, you marched up into the hill country. The Amorites who lived in those...2023-02-1706 min
Wilderness WanderingsDon't be Afraid -- Embrace the Promise “But you wouldn’t go up [into the land, Moses said to Israel]. You refused to obey the command of the Lord your God. You spoke against him in your tents. You said, “The Lord hates us. That’s why he brought us out of Egypt to hand us over to the Amorites. He wanted to destroy us. Where can we go? The men who checked out the land have made us afraid. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are. The cities are large. They have walls that reach up to the sky. We even saw the An...2023-02-1507 minWilderness WanderingsPraising God as EvangelismPraise the Lord. I will praise the Lord. I will praise the Lord all my life. I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. Don’t put your trust in human leaders. Don’t trust in people who can’t save you. When they die, they return to the ground. On that day their plans come to nothing. Blessed are those who depend on the God of Jacob for help. Blessed are those who put their hope in the Lord their God! The Lord rules forever. The God of Zion will rule for all time to com...2023-02-0106 min
Wilderness WanderingsYour God ReignsHow beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the Lord returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes. Burst into songs of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord will lay bare his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the eart...2022-12-0706 min
Wilderness WanderingsMoses' Wish FulfilledIn the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy (Acts 2:17-18). Revived and filled with the breath of God, women and men, young and old dream dreams and see visions (Contemporary Testimony: Our World Belongs to God, 28). For the next four weeks, Wilderness Wanderings will be tied more closely to...2022-10-1705 minWilderness WanderingsOur Story“Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back, you mountains, that you skipped like rams, you hills like lambs? (Psalm 114:5-6). Let’s begin with some things Pastor Anthony said yesterday about Psalm 113. That psalm asks: “Who is like the Lord our God?” Answer? No one. Nothing. Our God is utterly unique. And in his Son Jesus Christ, we get an even better look at him. He did not consider equality with God as something to be used to his own advantage but instead became nothing. The highest of the high, the utte...2022-10-1305 minWilderness WanderingsA New SongSing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvellous things; his right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him…Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it…let them sing before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity (Psalm 98:1, 7, 9). Momentous events need to be celebrated. In our personal lives, birthdays and anniversaries are marked with celebrations. We throw a party for graduations and other major accomplishments. In our...2022-09-2006 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Trust and HopeAn extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Daniel 6 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS What leaves you feeling insecure today? What ways do you tend to respond to feeling insecure? What ways did Pastor Anthony mention from today’s text? The immature...2022-08-2135 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - The Writing on the WallAn extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Daniel 5 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS Do you ever look for a sign from God? Have you ever seen or received one? Tell about it. What does Pastor Anthony mean by “the silence of God...2022-08-0726 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - Christian Unity and the SpiritAn extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is 1 Corinthians 2:3-16 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS 1. What distinctions do we tend to draw between ourselves and others—whether others in the world or in the church? How has this passage played into the wa...2022-05-1534 minWilderness WanderingsLament for My Hard HeartLord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath. Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint; heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony. My soul is in anguish. How long, O Lord, how long? (Psalm 6:1-3). Yesterday, Pastor Anthony used Psalm 5 to remind us of the basic elements of Lament: taking God seriously, taking evil seriously and submitting ourselves to God. Prayers of lament articulate the pain of life in this broken world, while also accepting that only God can be trusted to deal with evil. ...2022-05-1007 minWilderness WanderingsHe Showed Them His ScarsHe said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence (Luke 24:38-43). Se...2022-04-2807 minWilderness WanderingsSunday Sermon - UnshakableAn extended Sunday Sermon edition of Wilderness Wanderings! The text is Psalm 62 from the New International Version of the Bible. Dive In discussion questions are below for further reflection! To see this sermon in the context of the worship service it comes from, find it here on YouTube. Or, head to our website to connect with the worshiping community of Immanuel CRC: immanuelministries.ca DIVE IN QUESTIONS What does it mean to have an “unshakable” foundation for your house? What about for your life? What do you have to do in order to benefit...2022-04-2425 min
Wilderness WanderingsHands!It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last (Luke 23:44-45). Before I give today’s devotion, a word about this weekend. There will be no Wilderness Wanderings published on Friday or Monday. Pastor Anthony will publish an episode for Saturday. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts. The written versio...2022-04-1406 minWilderness WanderingsWhat Kind of King is this?Our text is from Luke 23:1-5 Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate. And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.” So, Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” You have said so,” Jesus replied. Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.” But they insisted, “He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and h...2022-04-0605 minWilderness WanderingsPatience & Prayer“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. Be always on the watch and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:34-36). As they say, ‘the world’s going to hell in a handbasket.’ A sentiment that has been true in almost every age...2022-03-2106 minWilderness WanderingsGod Weighs the HeartAs Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly, I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on” (Luke 21:1-4). A man who had become very wealthy was once asked to speak at the launch of a church fundraising campaign. In his conclusion, he mentioned that when he was youn...2022-03-1505 minWilderness WanderingsLook at the KingAfter Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it.’” Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. As they were untying the...2022-02-2805 minWilderness WanderingsForgivenOne day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right...2022-02-0305 minWilderness WanderingsCompassionate AuthorityJesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. So, he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them. At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them. Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak...2022-01-2606 minWilderness WanderingsA Domesticated Jesus?All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked. Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.’” “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown (Luke 4:22-24). Yesterday, Pastor Anthony invited us to consider if we truly understood what Jesus meant by the word “salvation”. It’s a word so familiar, we Christians no longe...2022-01-1906 minWilderness WanderingsTemptationsJesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry (Luke 4:1-2). With Pastor Anthony having been on vacation last week, neither of us prepared anything for yesterday. We apologize for that. With that out of the way, let us return to Luke’s account of Jesus life and ministry. You may recall that in the early chapters Luke has been exploring wh...2022-01-1105 minWilderness WanderingsThe Son of...!Now Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his ministry. He was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli, the son of Matthat…the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God (Luke 3:23-38). Well, I skipped most of the passage, as many of you probably do when encountering a Biblical genealogy. Our culture has lost its interest in history, even its own history. But most cultures, today and throughout the ages, have valued the role ancestors played in shaping in their li...2022-01-0706 minWilderness WanderingsFire or Fire!The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” And with many other words John exhorted the people and proc...2022-01-0506 min
Wilderness WanderingsThe MangerSuddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about” (Luke 2:13-15). As Luke tells us the story of Christ’s birth, many of the details may be lost to us. The story Pastor Anthony told us yesterday fits within...2021-12-2305 min
Wilderness WanderingsThere was No RoomHe went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them (Luke 2:5-7). Theologian Stanley Hauerwas was once asked what he thought was the greatest threat to American Christianity. His answer was surprising. It wasn’t atheism, radical Islam, civil religion, or consumerism. No, Hauerwas stated tha...2021-12-2105 min
Wilderness WanderingsLet it Be“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God will ever fail. “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left...2021-12-0906 min
Wilderness WanderingsAn Ordinary DayOnce when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside. Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense (Luke 1:8-11). There had been many ordinary priestly days for Zechariah. Twice each year he travelled to the temple to fulfill his dut...2021-12-0105 minFHCRC Podcast2020 - 10 - 18 - Pastor Anthony Elenbaas - Render Unto Caesar 012020 - 10 - 18 - Pastor Anthony Elenbaas - Render Unto Caesar 01 by FHCRC Podcast2020-10-1924 minFHCRC Podcast2020 - 08 - 09 - Rev. Anthony Elenbaas - Truly You Are The Son Of God 012020 - 08 - 09 - Rev. Anthony Elenbaas - Truly You Are The Son Of God 01 by FHCRC Podcast2020-08-1018 min