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2018-08-26

Ephesians 6

Unlike most of his other letters, the Apostle Paul wrote Ephesians to the believers in the church in Ephesus to teach and encourage them in their daily lives as a community of individual believers.  He wanted them to understand more about how to live out their lives as believers in Christ. We can see this […]

2018-07-29

Jesus, Justice, Jazz

Today’s reading, the feeding of the 5,000, is a story that is so well known and remembered that sometimes it is hard to preach upon, because each of us have our understanding of what it is all about.  Well, this morning I want to share with you another aspect of what the feeding of the […]

2018-07-22

He had compassion for them

Over the last weeks, it seems that I have been confronted again and again with the reality of our human frailty, and physical mortality. I have had news of friends’ being diagnosed with illnesses, visited parishioners in the hospital, talked with family members who are embarking on the hard journeys of fighting disease, and while […]

2018-06-24

Be Still and Know that I am God

When I was seven, my two brothers and I stayed with our Grandma for a few weeks while my parents were traveling in Finland, Sweden and the USSR.  It was a fun time for us city-boys for my Mom’s mother lived in a town of one hundred and thirty people in the middle of farm […]

2018-06-17

Mustard Tree

Here we are on June 17th, getting ready to have our church picnic.  Though on the calendar, summer does not start for another four days, already it seems that we have been experiencing summertime for months.  Does it not? I am looking forward to our picnic today.  I like traditional picnic food.  Be it eating […]

2018-06-10

Here are my mothers and brothers

Throughout the gospels Jesus declares whom he is with a great variety of different statements, for instance he declares at various times, “I am the good shepherd.  I am the bread of life.  I am the the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Jesus also uses parables to try and illustrate, either the Kingdom of […]

2018-06-03

The Lord of the Sabbath

Our two stories from Mark this morning are linked by a number of commonalities.  What links them?  Let’s start with what is the most obvious link between these two stories in Mark, chapter 2. Most, if not all of you, will immediately think, “The link is that they both take place on the Sabbath!” And, […]

2018-05-06

I give a new commandment

Just a few weeks ago we read other passages from this same section of John’s Gospel.  For this section was a part of the Maundy Thursday reading.  In fact the commandment that Jesus gives in these verses today is the very reason that Holy Thursday is named, ‘Maundy.’  ‘Maundy’ and mandate are related words, coming […]

2018-04-22

God calls us to be Under Shepherds

This is Good Shepherd Sunday.  The Fourth Sunday after Easter.  The church year is in 3-year cycles for the Scripture liturgically, yet we read a part of this chapter in John’s Gospel every year.  It is seen to be that important in our Christian lives.  Our sermon hymn today begins, The Lord is my Shepherd. […]

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 […]

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