2016 Vision Sunday: Church Plant Training School

Main idea: Trust God for grace as we live in a painful, sin-cursed world.  In the midst of conflict and hostility, trust in the One who crushes the head of the serpent. (v. 14-15)Revelation 121 Corinthians 15:24-...

As a teenager growing up in a Lutheran church in Iowa, I enjoyed serving as an acolyte, which is a person who lights the candles at the front of the church as the service begins and extinguishes them at the end. It was a formal proces...