Faith is one of those words we can use quite well without necessarily being able to define it. There’s nothing wrong with this, by the way, peace be upon my English teachers who tried to teach me otherwise. Being able to use a word correctly, and even elegantly, does not require you to be able…
There is an old bit by George Carlin, the standup comedian, about “stuff.” If you remember it, this Sunday’s sermons are not drawn from it . . . at least not intentionally. I talked about “stuff” today because it is important to think about the stuff in our lives. Stuff is our possessions of course…
I kick off both sermons with a statement something to the effect of, ‘there are some difficult words in Scripture,” and there are. However, I am not talking about those words difficult to translate from Hebrew, Greek, and very occasionally Aramaic. I am not talking about wrestling with the Greek grammatical case able to say,…