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Where Are You Standing:
Text: Mark 3:20-35 Jesus is home at last. No more mountain climbing, setting up tents, cooking over campfires, bonding with the boys. No...
Son of Laughter
Text: Genesis 25:19-34 Jacob had many nicknames, all of them well-earned: trickster, deceiver, conniver, but his earliest nickname was...
A Suitable Memorial
Text: John 16:16-24 I miss reading to my young children. There is much about raising young children that I do not miss at all – the...
Wild Goose
Text: Acts 2:1-4 When Jesus is baptized in the Jordan, the Spirit of God descends on him like a dove. It is a calm, soothing image, an...
For the Love of God
Text: John 15:9-17 I have been preaching for forty-four years now and I have never preached on the same text on two consecutive Sundays....
A Father's Prayer
Text: John 15:9-17 The letter I am about to read is fictional. We do not know if the author of John’s Gospel, had a child or if he ever...
When Water is Thicker Than Blood
Text: Acts 8:26-39 Only weeks after the first Easter, Philip finds himself in the desert in the noonday heat. It is not long before an...
The Saint Matthias Society
Text: Acts 1:15-26 Have you ever heard of a Christian apostle by the name of Justus? No worries. No one else has either. He gets one...
Gone Fishin'
Text: John 21:2-19 (Read John 21:2-3) Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two...
Known by Name
Text: John 20:1-18 There is something special about being known by name. There is something in the way a lover can say your name that...
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