April 3, 2016: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Happy Easter! Now, for all of you that thought Easter was last Sunday…today is Easter…too, or 2. Easter is not just a single day on the calendar. We are still celebrating Easter and we are in Eastertide until the…
Easter Sunday – March 27, 2016: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. There was an article published on Good Friday that started like this…“When was the last time you felt stressed out by Easter? So much Easter shopping to do, so many Easter cards to write, so many…
Good Friday – March 25, 2016: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. We have walked with Christ to this moment. Starting on Palm Sunday, we began a journey that brought to mind and heart the choices Jesus made, and that we made, and continue to make in…
Maundy Thursday – March 24, 2016: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. There was a movie along while ago called “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?” It premiered in 1967 and featured some wonderful actors – Sidney Portier, Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracey to name a few. A young white…
March 20, 2016 – Palm Sunday: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Oh the insanity of it all. No, I don’t mean snow on the first day of Spring…thankfully we were spared from that this morning. I mean Palm Sunday. Now, as I say every Palm Sunday,…
March 13, 2016: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. It’s good to be back this morning, and good to see that so many of you remembered to Spring Forward! If you don’t know, I was on vacation last week, and last Sunday, I had the chance to be…
February 28, 2016: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. There was a pastor of another congregation that decided to have a more interactive sermon the Sunday that the story of Moses and the burning bush was read as a lesson, and so he “selected a middle-aged couple to…
February 21, 2016: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. So last week, we heard about Jesus in the wilderness. He was beginning to live into his calling – a life that would lead him to Jerusalem – to the cross. After his baptism, he was ready to begin…
February 14, 2016: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. A few days ago on Ash Wednesday, folks were going about their daily business, only to look up from their phones to see people with ashes on their forehead. More than one person told me that the reaction was…
February 7, 2016: May God’s words alone be spoken, may God’s words alone be heard. Amen. Welcome to the last Sunday in Epiphany. Can you believe that Ash Wednesday is this week? And as we do every year, we end this season of manifestations – epiphanies – with a mountaintop experience. Now, at convention, we…
