East Mound Church of Christ

01/30/2026

Ladies, have you ever felt that your role as a woman is not big enough? That you are constrained when it comes to your service to God? Have you ever felt that what you do is insignificant? That you wish you could do more? How you may feel that what you can do has no bearing in the greater scheme in the furtherance of the gospel or the betterment for the kingdom of God? Well, I am here to let you know, that the men of the church, Christ, and Almighty God see you, and recognize how important you are and your role is.

Hebrews 6:10 - For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

What this is saying is that God is just and will not overlook your efforts. It emphasizes service driven by love for God and His name. It also commends both past and present ministry to the saints. It also assures that your sacrifices and service for His kingdom do not go un-noticed, they are recognized, and they are not in vain.

Remember, King Saul loved God. He wanted to show God just how much he loved him by offering sacrifices unto him after a victory. However, he was told to destroy everything.

1 Samuel 15:22 - And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

God wants our obedience above all else. We as humans, who love God, want to try and find ways to show Him just how much we do love Him. Most time though, we tend to lean on our own wisdom and judgement to do that. If we truly wish to please him, we are told that all we have to do, is obey. A simple thing. Here, God was telling King Saul, and us by proxy, that nothing pleases Him more, than for us to do what He asks us to do. So never feel as though you haven’t done enough, or you are insignificant in the eyes of the Lord. Remember, it takes all members of the body to make it functional.

01/28/2026

01/22/2026

Baptism is essential for salvation. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

11/25/2025

People often miss the weight of what Jesus was saying in the Prodigal Son story.

It was told against the backdrop of ancient Jewish customs. If you disgraced your family or wasted your inheritance among outsiders, the village would meet you at the border, smash a clay pot at your feet, and declare you cut off. The shattered pieces said Your relationship was broken. You were finished. No coming back. It wasn’t dignified. It was cold and final.
This was the ceremony of kezazah. Your people publicly declared you “cut off.”

That’s the long, lonely walk the prodigal was taking.
Dirty. Empty. Rehearsing a speech he knew wouldn’t fix anything.
Bracing himself for judgment, he knew he deserved.

But Jesus...
He says the father saw the boy while he was still far away… and ran. He ran! Love ran.

In this culture. Older men didn’t run. It wasn’t dignified. It required the lifting of the robes and exposing the ankles. Immodest.
But this father wasn’t worried about dignity.
He likely wasn’t racing because of sentiment alone.
He was racing to get there before anyone else could.
Before a pot could shatter.
Before the village could declare the boy cut off.
Before justice could step in with its list of accusations.
Before kezazah.

He ran to intercede. To throw his arms around a son who thought he’d burned every bridge.
To make it clear that mercy would speak first.
And mercy would speak louder than kezazah.

Jesus is the Father who moves toward you faster than your failures move against you.

When you finally come to yourself…
When you turn around and start the long walk back…
You may expect harsh words.
You may rehearse your apology.
But the Father cuts you off...

You are not a servant trying to earn your way home.
You are a son or daughter being restored.
Robe. Ring. Shoes.
Full welcome. Full belonging.
No shame. Only transformation.
Dead to alive
Lost to found
Broken to restored

This is who Jesus is.
The God who runs.

10/31/2025

C.S. Lewis once wrote "To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

That is the sum of the whole matter.

10/29/2025

Matthew 5:23-24 : Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift