Posts from January 2025

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Fourth Sunday After Epiphany

by Jo Witt

Theme of the Day: Popularity Is Not Proof Of Success In 2009, Facebook added the “like” button. That same year, Twitter added the “retweet” feature. Interestingly, reported cases of depression began to rise sharply in 2010. It is easy to think that the more people like us, the more successful our lives must be. Likewise, […]

Third Sunday After Epiphany

by Jo Witt

Theme of the Day: Rejection Is Not Proof Of Failure When you are trying to share some important information with someone, but they refuse to listen or perhaps totally reject what you are saying, it feels like you have failed. This is especially true when someone rejects the gospel! We proclaim the good news because […]

Second Sunday After Epiphany

by Jo Witt

Theme of the Day: God Delivers More Than We Ask, Not Less It is easy for us to assume that if God says “no” to a request, we are getting less than we wanted. We need to have an epiphany moment, seeing the reality—that God always wants more for us than we want from him. […]

First Sunday After Epiphany – Baptism of Our Lord

by Jo Witt

Theme of the Day: Your Baptism Seals Your Identity “Who is Jesus?” For the longest time, people thought the answer to that question was, “Mary and Joseph’s son” or “a carpenter from Nazareth.” While true enough, those answers do not adequately describe Jesus. But when Jesus was baptized, God the Father spoke, declaring Jesus true […]