This Sunday we talked about love and how could “All you need is love” not go through my head? Well it couldn’t, it even infiltrated the sermon title, “Love is all we need.” So was this just a mushy sermon about how if we all love each other everything will be fine? Not exactly. The […]
One body
So why do you think Paul uses “body” as a metaphor for the church? There are several reasons I’m sure but I suspect one of the biggest ones is that “body” is something that is common to all of us. In today’s Epistle lesson, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31, Paul makes good use of the notion of […]
What kind of a question is, “Whose gifts?” anyway?
If you have been following me for any length of time in this blog or in any of the churches I have preached in then you know two things about me.* First, I like sermon titles that are questions and second, I like to talk about spiritual gifts; this Sunday we got both! There is […]