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Life is Fragile

For to this end we toil and struggle, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe. (1 Timothy 4:10) I was in the building one Saturday about a week and a half ago, checking on a few details for our Sages service. As…

Spiritual Road Kill … Rescued

There is a great difference between the skill and the grace of prayer. The skill is but the outside, the shape, the carcass of our responsibility. The grace is the soul and spirit that gives it life, vigor and efficacy, that renders it acceptable to God and of real advantage to ourselves. The skill consists…

Who’s Baking the Bread?

So how do you answer the question? Today’s Preaching Question from the study page … “Are You the Bread Winner?” Nah … don’t bother answering … I already know the answer. Because in one way or another, we all want to be the bread winners. The ones who provide … the ones who create security…

Jesus Christ Superstar Revisited

Email Devotion For The Week Of Easter 2 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. (Mark 14:10) A week ago Sunday, I gathered with nine and a half million of my best friends to watch Jesus Christ Superstar on NBC TV. I have…

A Tale of Two Hugs

Email Devotion For The Week Following Easter Rather, let your adornment be the inner self with the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight. (1 Peter 3:4) God works in mysterious ways indeed. Last week it was two hugs that I observed given and received by…

How Does God Love the World?

Traditional sermon lent 4 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord, Jesus Christ (1 Colossians 1:3). Let’s go back in time to the mid-1970s. And, yes, I’m talking about a little over 40 years ago. I was in high school. Disco, very wide ties, platform shoes, tacky…

Christ’s Healing Makes Us Whole

Traditional Sermon Epiphany 5 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord, Jesus Christ (1 Colossians 1:3). Today’s gospel passage brings back some memories from an encounter I had many years ago with some friends at church. The discussion we had not only raised some humorous questions, but also…

Beloved, Beautiful, Believing

New Day Sermon the baptism of our lord Why did Jesus need to be baptized? He was sinless. Maybe the answer is more basic than we realize.

Christmas

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL CHRISTMAS DAY Please enjoy this reflection by Frederick Buechner from his book, Whistling in the Dark. The lovely old carols played and replayed till their effect is like a dentist’s drill or jack hammer, the bathetic banalities of the pulpit and the chilling commercialism of almost evertything else, people spending money they can’t afford…

I Need a Holy Night

traditional sermon Christmas Eve 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. (Luke 2:11, KJV) I find it ironic that during a season that is centered upon peace on earth … the peace brought by God … and the peace of a holy…