7 Pentecost: Hospitality & Prayer
However many people there are listening to this sermon is how many opinions there are about prayer -- and what it is or is not. I do not know. I…
5 Pentecost 2022: Dig Deeper
This is a real sermon this week. By that, I mean standing back and letting the texts speak for themselves without a lot of interpretation or 21st century chiropractic adjustment. Of…
4 Pentecost: “The end is different than the beginning…”
I have to warn you, this is one of those strange, abstract highly metaphoric sermons. You will either get it or you won’t. It has a punch line -- a…
3 Pentecost 2022: Little prophets
Don’t you just love euphemisms? Check out that first line of Luke’s Gospel: ”When the days drew near for him to be received up...” By “received up” he must have…
2 Pentecost: True Story
We just heard my favorite Gospel story. To my way of thinking about it it is the most wonderful of many, many wonderful stories. So I am not going to…