Sermons

Ah Mother’s Day. I give ground to no one in my appreciation for my own mother, mother-in-law and step-mother to say nothing of the mother of my children! I love them all. I am amazed at how capable, creative and wonderful they are. I wish them, and all mothers, nothing but the best on this day that is set aside for them. However, I did not find a natural connection…

It seems rather ironic that after having to put up with all sorts of irritating travel problems I missed last Sunday simply due to a temporary and minor illness . . . [sigh] but I’m back this week and hoping to not miss for a long time! This Sunday I wanted to spend some time thinking and talking about what it might mean to have a vision, and “back doored”…

What a peculiar Sunday this turned out to be, at least as far as preaching goes. If you have any reason to go to the Service Info page with any regularity  (https://sites.google.com/a/holtslander.com/knoxstmarks/home/service-info-year-c-2012-2013) you were probably shocked a week or so ago when you saw that I had a sermon title, “Are they all sheep?” up more than a week in advance of the Sunday involved. This is very unusual for…

We are sheep. That is essentially a given when we look at human beings from the perspective of scripture. That is not a pejorative term or a bad thing in any way. I have spoken about our sheep-ness before so I won’t do it again here. What this Sunday’s texts took me toward was less our sheep nature and more toward our call to be shepherds. One of the points…

I don’t know anyone who enjoys an existence free of all onerous tasks. Neither do I know anyone who is stuck with an existence that is only onerous tasks, and yes, I am well aware that this only points out my essentially privileged position. I am currently struggling with a particular task that became, without me really noticing, onerous. Now, if you are wondering what on earth I might be…