Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost Proper 27 November 6, 2016 Haggai 2:4b-9 Psalm 145:18-21 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 Luke 20:27-38...

On this third Sunday after Pentecost, when the new lives of the Spiritually ordained have gone out into the world to spread the gospel of...

We are now at the second Sunday after Pentecost, so the ordained are getting settled into their ministries.  The lessons of this week...

This is the first Sunday after an apostle’s “Ordination Ceremony.”  Today the newly “ordained” begin their true calling. To be “ordained”...

My mother worked at Sears when I was growing up.  It seems that everything we owned came from Sears. Many things my mother would bring...

When I first met my wife, Lyn, and had my first feelings of deep and profound love for her, I made her a CD of love songs. The songs were...

I mentioned last week that today, Christ the King Sunday, marks the end of a cycle.  It not only ends the season of Pentecost, but next...

Here we are in the middle of November.  Halloween has come and gone.  Now, Thanksgiving is right around the corner.  Next Sunday is the...

In the reading today from the Book of Haggai, we heard God ask the post-exilic Jews, “Who is left among you that saw this house in its...

I remember when I was a child, going to a big tent revival meeting held at the Fairgrounds.  I remember the large area the tent covered,...

In the Nicene Creed, or the Apostles’ Creed, which we recite each week, we all avow that God has spoken through the prophets. In the...

On July 4, 1776, a group of representatives from thirteen colonies got together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and signed the Declaration...

In the readings today, we find Jeremiah instructing the exiled Jews to pray for the welfare of Babylon, because their welfare depended on...

In Matthew, chapter 8, we are all familiar with the fear the disciples had when a storm came upon them while fishing on the Sea of...

In today’s readings we heard a series of names: Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Hanamel, Shallum, Anathoth, Baruch, Neriah, Mehseiah, and...

For anyone who is familiar with the Steve Martin movie The Jerk, you know it is a rags-to-riches, then riches-to-rags, and then finally a...

The readings today bring about a need to understand the duality of everything.  There are two sides that need to be considered.  In...