Messiah St. Charles Weekly Messages Messiah St. Charles

The Faith of the Next Generation Matters Now. It's one of Messiah's five core values, and in this teaching Hannah Lang, our Director of Kid's Ministry, joins Pastor Jim to issue a challenge. It's not enough to learn about our faith, we must also put our beliefs into action if we're serious about passing them on to our kids, grandkids—and all the generations after them.

Heard the news today? War is all around us. Even though we live in nation at (relative) peace, we cannot escape the conflict that defines our lives—the internal struggle to do what is right when it's so easy to do what it wrong. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is a song about a particular place and time, but Bono sings of an issue that we all can recognize.

Could you use some encouragement and hope right about now? U2’s songs have maintained their relevancy decade after decade because they speak to our longings and needs. Whether its the words or just the melody, there is something timeless about them. This Sunday, their 1987 classic “Where the Streets Have No Name” is the song we’ll be looking at more closely to address the universal desire to make a earth a bit more like heaven.

Rainbows symbolize the promise God made with His people to never send another flood. Pastor Jim notes that a rainbow reminds us that all storms eventually end.

Of all the bad boys we've looked at, the crowd of people calling for Jesus's crucifixion is the one most of us would have been a part of. It's too easy for us to be persuaded into action by others with an agenda, but there is a way to guard our minds and not be tempted to go against our own conscience. Seminary student Ryan Pfendler helps us avoid conforming to the norms of the world with the help of God's Word.

We don’t know much about the Centurion in charge of Jesus’s crucifixion, but we do know that he saw what others didn’t—that Jesus was the Son of God. In the course of doing his job, he was able to come that realization and be forever changed by what he saw.