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Merry or By Another Road
Text: Matthew 2:1-12 Merry Christmas! I have more to say to you but before I do, there is nothing I wish to say more than “Merry...
Theotokos
Text: Luke 1:26-38 In The Sound of Music , the perplexed nuns sing: “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” Great artists from...
No Offense
Text: Matthew 11:2-6 As my retirement rapidly approaches, I can tell you two things for certain. First, I am grateful to God to have...
Word's Out
Text: Luke 3:1-6 For list-lovers, ‘tis the season to be jolly. And, ole Luke is definitely a list-lover. Mark and John aren’t so much...
Wide Awake
Text: Matthew 24:36-44 Thanksgiving is over and another Advent has arrived. I hope everyone has hung their apocalyptic Advent...
What Time is it?
Text: John 18:33-37 The most common question that I am asked these days is: “Gary, what are going to do in your...
Tomorrow Just Won't Do
Texts: Joshua 24:14-15; Matthew 25:1-13 I was young, in love, and broke . But since I was young and in love, I didn’t let the “broke”...
Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Text: Psalm 98 I have a delicious early childhood memory. It is not a memory of home but of a Sunday School class. My Tidewater Sunday...
Not One of Us
Text: Mark 9:33-41 The disciples of Jesus look dumb in Mark’s Gospel. Maybe a kinder and gentler way to say it would be that the...
And the Answer Is . . .
Text: Job 1:1-2:10 The character I understand best in this story is not God. It is definitely not Job, at least the Job we meet early...
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