Leviticus 16:21-34; Hebrews 9:1-14; Matthew 21:1-17; 23:37-39 If you’ve turned on the news or read a newspaper in the last few years, you know that the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans has begun to rise due to human industry. This global warming, or climate change, is associated...
Sermons
BE NOT AFRAID, EASTER 2008
2 Chronicles 6:3-11; Isaiah 26:16-19; 2 Timothy 2:8-13; Matthew 28:1-15 On this Easter Sunday, we hear an angel greet the women who have come to attend to Jesus’ body tell them, “Be not afraid.” This in the aftershock of an earthquake that has put a contingent of Rome’s Special...
A RESURRECTION STRANGER THAN FICTION – Easter 2007
Daniel 6:6-23; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 24:1-12 Today, I want to talk briefly about stories. Michael Malone is a great local novelist who has written some of my favorite books, and I had occasion a few years ago to hear him speak about his writing. I should also mention...
ENOUGH FOR ALL AROUND ONE TABLE
Deuteronomy 24:10-22; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34; Luke 16:19-31 Mark Twain famously said, “It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it’s the parts that I DO understand.” Well, Jesus’ words today seem distressingly clear, like his message on “you cannot serve God and money”...