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2018-04-15

Silver and Gold, I do not have

Peter and John were walking through the temple gate called ‘Beautiful’ one day, when a man lame from birth called out to them for a gift of money.  This man sat each day at the temple gate begging.  That is how he survived.  He was a fixture there, everyone who regularly used the ‘Beautiful’ gate […]

2018-03-18

Jeremiah 31

The reading this morning from Jeremiah is one in which Jeremiah is speaking on behalf of God to the people of Judah who have been taken into captivity in Babylon.  Through Jeremiah, God is promising to his people a new day, a day that will dawn for them at some time in the future.  It […]

2018-03-11

God so loved

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.” is part of the last verse of our lesson from Ephesians this morning. In this verse the Apostle Paul is speaking to us about our purpose in life.  We, the people of God, saved by grace through our faith in Jesus Christ are […]

2018-03-04

God’s Foolishness

I love history.  To me it is a never ending string of fascinating stories, filled with interesting characters, odd circumstances, choices for good and ill, and the effects of the natural world upon humanity.  Since the world is filled with so much history, you cannot obviously know it all, and so, there is always something […]

2018-02-25

Get Behind Jesus

Have you ever had it all figured out?  Now I mean, specifically with God.  Where for some reason you seem to know exactly how things should go down in your life, and in what God is doing? Well, there have been times that I figured, yep, this is exactly how it should go, and then […]

2018-02-18

Rainbow Moments

For those of you who don’t know me, or not well enough, my name is Fundi Kayamba-Phiri. I’m guessing for some of you this is also an opportunity to learn how to pronounce my surname, as over the years I’ve heard all sorts of pronunciations, no hard feelings though, all is well. I moved to […]

2018-02-11

Transfiguration Sunday

One day almost twenty centuries ago, three men followed their loving and mystical teacher up a mountain in the countryside of Israel.  As happened so many times in their discipleship and friendship with this rabbi, they did not know where they were going, or why up a mountain?  Yet they followed willingly, for in their […]

2018-02-04

Jesus’ Eternal Ministry

I find a lot of humor in life, but don’t end up sharing too much of it up here in the pulpit, but the first verses of today’s gospel comprise what I find to be one of the more humorous situations in the Bible. So, following is one way to see some of the humor […]

2018-01-28

A New Teaching with Authority

Throughout our lives we have all had people in authority over us.  Some are political, like our various government officials, some are civil, like the police or judges, there are religious authorities like pastors, or Sunday School teachers.  When we are younger, educational authorities have a lot of power, be them teachers, principals, or professors.  […]

2018-01-21

Jonah’s Hate and God’s Calling

When I was a child, for either Sunday School or Vacation Bible School, I cannot remember which we had the theme of Jonah and the Whale for some sessions, and we capped it off by having a little outdoor play about Jonah fleeing from God, and being eaten by the whale.  For the outdoor play, […]

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