What We Say

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and one soul…but everything they owned was held in common. Acts 4:32 Dear Hanover Saints, The Psalmist writes: How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity! (133:1).  Those in the Resurrection’s first generation […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION In four days were the sum and the source of faith for the first disciples. On Thursday they shared a meal with Him. They were blessed and bewildered On Friday they watched Him die. They were shocked and abandoned. On Sunday they raced to a tomb looking for […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION Hosanna in the highest heaven! Mark 11:10 Dear Hanover Saints, For the Israelites Hosanna was a distress signal; it was their S.O.S.  In Hebrew Hosanna means “O save!”  When the people welcomed Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday they were begging and pleading to be saved.  They were in need of healing […]

Dear Hanover Saints, In 2002 Bruce Springsteen released an album in tribute to those who sacrificed themselves in the September 11, 2001 attacks.  He named the album “The Rising”, offering musical hope that life would emerge from the ashes of the World Trade Centers.  The second song is “Into the Fire”… The sky was falling […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God – not the result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 Dear Hanover Saints, In the heart of the wilderness Satan tempts Jesus […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle.  He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. John 2:15 Dear Hanover Saints, In one of my bibles the note on this […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION. Dear Hanover Saints, God loves a good U turn.  From God’s perspective, when our road trip is leading us away from God and we hang a good U-ee it leads to a homecoming. Lent is about repentance, and repentance is about turning.  The Hebrew word for repentance – shuve – means “to […]

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL VERSION. Dear Hanover Saints, What’s up with 40?  From whence the near obsession in scripture with the number 40?  A little background…beginning in the Hebrew scriptures 40 represented (symbolically and literally) a generation.  It served as a round number, typifying the circle and cycle of life.  It denoted full […]