The question we still ask is, “Who’s in and who’s out?” You might think with everything going on—climate change, economic insecurity, poverty, etc.—we would have better questions to ask, but this is still common. We want to know who is “in”; who is on our side. This is a harmless enough question when you are […]
The gifts of Acts – part four
This Sunday’s look at gifts is a look at one of the scarier gifts . . . outreach. There is something about “outreach” or evangelism or whatever you wish to call it that seems to frighten many church goers. If you ask some of these people to describe this thing they are afraid of you […]
Being and doing and all that
This is the last Sunday where there are two completely different (at least that was the intention) sermons in the one post. The Knox Presbyterian sermon is a meditation on how much we are different than the first century “teachers of the law” and Pharisees; those groups of hyper-religious folks that Jesus had so many […]