Keystone Nazarene Church

Matthew 28:1-10 Night and Day.  It’s amazing how much of a difference could happen between Saturday night, and Easter Sunday morning.  The dark of hopes shattered, evil victorious overcome and conquered by the light of that morning, of Jesus’ resurrection.  He is the light of the world and darkness could not overcome him!  He is […]

Matthew 21:1-11 Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday.  We hear them all the time.  Perhaps we identify with ones who praise Jesus, but do we understand the reality that we have been and are the ones who also shout ‘Crucify him’?  We look today at this critical understanding of why Jesus died and our part […]

John 11:1-45 Jesus’ timing could not have been worse.  Lazarus had already died.  Did he know? Did he care?  But as everyone found out, God’s timing was perfect and his answer to prayer was more than they could have imagined!

John 9:1-41 Seeing and blind.  It seems so cut and dried.  Either you can see or you can’t. And you certainly know if you can or can not see.  But in this story Jesus shows not only his power to make a blind man see, but also shows the truth that many people with eyesight […]

John 4:4-30 We can be thirsty for so many things.  Physical thirst is a great metaphor for much of our lives.  But we thirst most of all for the ability to be honest, especially about our failures.  Jesus meets a woman who was thirsty, but for water only he could give.  She found it as […]

John 3:1-17 New life, new birth.  We look forward to it for babies, we look forward to it in a new school-year, new job, or new home.  But more than anything we were created for a new life with Jesus.  He helps us see the real world around us.  This is what we were born […]

Ashes to Fire Matthew 4:1-11 We begin this season of lent, 40 days of preparation remembering another 40 days of preparation from scripture, the temptation of Jesus.  In it we find the same temptations that are common to us, and how Jesus trusted his father to face temptation without sin.  

Psalm 103 God is good!  He can be praised!  Why?  Because of all he has done, in the lives of people throughout scripture, in the lives of people throughout history, and in our lives, as we have begun a conversation with him through Jesus.

Psalm 69 There always are and will always be circumstances in life that make us feel desperate.  These reveal in our actions and emotions who we are, as humbling as it is.  But in this conversation of David God meets him in desperation, and provides joy!

Psalm 23 Life is full of needs (and wants!).  David talks about walking the road of needs, and of pain and the God who provides all the needs, and never leaves us, even though the darkest valley.

Psalm 55 One of the hardest conversations to have is when we’ve been betrayed.  Anger almost keeps blinding us to even talking to God.  We journey with the writer of Psalm 55 through the conversation with God when we are betrayed.

Psalm 66 God is always at work around us.  Often we forget that. But as the Psalms remind us, and we see God’s grace and presence we begin to find hope, peace, joy and a desire to share it!  We are not alone!

A reflection of the Keystone Mission trip to the typhoon-devistated town of Balangiga in the Philippines.

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Matthew 2:1-12 We are wired to want great things, significant things, lasting things.  Human history is filled with explorers, leaders, and normal people who look for something transcendent, something beyond.  It was to similar star-gazers long ago that God made a special invitation through one star, to the birth of the savior of the world.

Matthew 1:18-25 God does amazing things around us all the time.  The most amazing thing is that he invites us to be a part of it.  Joseph’s less-than comfortable invitation took him to the end of himself, but also made him a central part of God’s redemption of the entire human race!

Matthew 3:1-12 As we prepare to celebrate Jesus’ birth it can be easy to forget that is it Jesus preparing us for his return, not us preparing to welcome him!  This week, through John the Baptist, we are reminded it is not simply the titles we wear (‘Christian’, ‘Jew’, ‘Sunday School Teacher’, or ‘Pharisee’) that […]

Matthew 24:36-44 How do we celebrate this advent season?  We can celebrate because God is with us now.  We can celebrate because he can and does help us with teh practical questions, hurts, and pains as well as shares in our joys and excitements as we follow him in the world.  We prepare for Jesus’ […]

Matthew 7:13-27 Jesus ends his disciple training program, the sermon on the mount with a critical reminder.  It’s more than just ‘hearing’ and ‘knowing’!  It is about ‘doing’ and ‘being’!   Let’s put into practice what Jesus has been saying, so that we can become the kind-of people that he himself was!