When I drive to my mom’s condo, I drive through an adjoining neighborhood which has become extremely interesting to me, of late. The “interesting” began back in November, with the very “UN-interesting” practice of putting up Christmas lights. Many, but not all the houses in the neighborhood put up some semblance of Christmas lights ……
I am driving home from church this past Sunday, and as I make my way through the lower end of my neighborhood, I see what looks like checkerboards bouncing around down the street from me. As I get closer, I realize that the checkerboards are actually people … people who are all wearing identical pajamas…
Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. —1 Corinthians 15.58 We find ourselves less than a week away from Labor Day, the federal holiday that is just over 135 years old … created to celebrate…
New Day Sermon Easter Sunday Easter is about joy. Pure undiluted joy. But do we always know how to live in joy? How does the Resurrection gift you joy today?
New Day Sermonadvent 3 Is it up to us to muster up hope and joy this holiday season? When circumstances make it difficult, joy, like faith can only be received from God. What we need to fill our spirits is available, yet not always accessible. Why?
traditional sermon LENT 2 The 8th chapter of Mark’s Gospel from which we read today is a challenging piece of writing to be sure. This past Wednesday morning, my weekly Bible Study class studied this very chapter, and discussed the change in spirit that occurs in the roughly fifty verses of this chapter that stands in…
