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Touching the Face of God
John Gillespie Magee was a WWII fighter pilot, who wrote these words three months before he was killed in a mid-air collision. The poem is entitled, “High Flight.” Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds,…
Lightbulb Witnessing
On the Mountaintop
New Day Sermon Transfiguration Sunday Mountaintops are magnificent places to be … just ask Peter, James and John, who were present at Jesus’ transfiguration. But eventually we have to come down from the mountaintop and serve as God’s people where they are. It is where God needs us … and where we need to be…
Lord, to Whom Can We Go?
Their names were Carl & Alma Rasmussen. They were Sages back in the 1980’s before we called our octogenarians by the title Sages. The Rasmussen’s were both well into their nineties, when I came to St. Peter’s as your assistant pastor in 1986. Carl was the retired systematic theology professor of the former Gettysburg Seminary…
Harvest Hands
New Day Sermon Pentecost 2 Does the thought of serving overwhelm you? Think of yourself as possessing “harvest hands” and work in God’s Kingdom, where there are as many places of need as there are different talents and passions
What shoes are in your closet?
Traditional Sermon, Pentecost 7 It’s a beautiful day in God’s neighborhood, A beautiful day to serve others , Would you join me, Could you join me? It’s a beautiful day to spread God’s Good news…A day to share the Gospel. Would you join me? Could you join me? I’ve always wanted to serve with someone…