Jesus continues his ministry of healing and making people whole in this week’s reading from Mark — raising up Simon’s mother-in-law and a casting out demons from a whole host of people. Our reading from Isaiah this week foretells how the creator of the universe will care for the powerless and we sing about this…
This Sunday is Youth Sunday and our youth have been working to share the good news found in our readings. In the reading from Deuteronomy we hear about the qualifications of prophets and their messages. We make our response using Psalm 111 where we declare that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of…
New Day Sermon Pentecost 18 When we’re at our edge God sends us bridges. What may prevent us from taking them?
Have you ever found yourself in an “in between” place in life? Maybe you were “between” jobs … or in “transition” from one relationship to another … or stuck between that proverbial “rock and a hard place.” Maybe your “in between-ness” is due to a dependency upon drugs or alcohol or prescription medicines. Maybe it…
Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus asked, “Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? Was none of them found to return and give praise…
New Day Sermon Pentecost 11 Seeing eye to eye…the eyes are the window to the soul… the eyes have it… what do they have? The have knowledge, history, hurts, hopes…and if you look closely enough…maybe even the divine.
When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.” When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. -Luke 13:12-13 The Scripture assigned for this Sunday tells a story that God is up to something. And it is good! What…
Today’s sermon is not so much focused on the gospel text as the way that God approaches people where they are and enables them to contrast who they are and what they do with who God is and what God’s intentions are for each.
