Sermons

None of us gets everything write always.* We are fallible people living in a fallen world. We make mistakes because of silliness, stupidity, carelessness, ignorance, . . . the list goes on and on. There is one part of us, an extraordinarily useful part of us, that can lead to errors. The part I’m talking about is ...

PLEASE NOTE: our house suffered a brief power failure in the middle of the sermon so you will hear a break, then a few words from me about it, and then the sermon continues. My apologies for the jolt. There is something essentially human of wanting and NOT wanting to wait for it. It is this combination, ...

Needless to say I am not got to tell you what the Trinity is ALL about because that is really, very much, beyond any human person. The sermon title is “What’s it all about?” and is referencing Trinity Sunday rather than the Trinity in its entirety. The Trinity, much like “eternity,” is fundamentally beyond us and ...

Everything, except for God, has to begin somewhere and sometime. This includes the church. Not only did whatever church you may worship in have to begin sometime it had to have a place where it began. This is not revolutionary, it is common sense. The Day of Pentecost is when the church as we know it ...

Asking why someone writes, or wrote, is a tricky question. I am a writer and I don’t always have a good answer to this question. When we start asking the question about people who have been dead for any length of time, let alone hundreds and hundreds of years a satisfactory answer may simply not ...

It is a rare person who never doubts what they know about themselves. We all need reassurance in something at some time. We might need to be reminded we are good parent/sibling/child/. . . . We know these things but we don’t feel them at the moment. It is common for people who are in a ...

So do we even need to ask this question? For that matter, does it have an answer? Surely God is too big, too much, to fit into such a simple question. Well of course this is the case. The question isn’t intended to get at an exhaustive answer as that is beyond us. Rather, the question ...

There are always things curious people want to know. The most curious of people, namely toddlers, reportedly can ask up to 400 questions a day . . . this comes as no surprise to anyone who has cared for a toddler. Those of us who are no longer toddlers may not have as many questions ...

There is something fundamental about the human desire to know things. Let me take a moment to assure you, if needed, that you are always “allowed” to ask questions, even about and to God. We each have things of special interest to us but there are some things with a wider appeal. The three readings from ...

If this Sunday was closer to the Fourth of July I might have thought to play around with John’s declaration of non-independence but I only thought of it now so we are stuck with what I was thinking before. John is not the most opaque writer in the Bible but he definitely makes the short list. ...