Exodus 17:1-7, Matthew 21:23-32
Have you ever spent a day with a cranky kid? A whiner? It might have started out OK but maybe they just got up on the wrong side of the bed. Perhaps they are getting ready for school and can’t decide what to wear…

Matthew 20:1-16
“No fair!” What parent hasn’t heard that from their child? And even if you’re not a parent, you’ve heard a child say it, “No fair! Tom invited Susie to his birthday party, and not me. No fair!” “She gets to stay up until nine o’clock and I don’t. No fair!”…

Exodus 3:1-15, Matthew 16:21-28
So when was the last time God spoke to you? When was the last time you heard God’s voice? I know when I ask that question there are many kinds of answers. It depends on what you mean by the voice of God…

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28, Matthew 14:22-33
When I was a college student in the 1970’s, there came out a wrist band that we wore in honor of the prisoners of war and missing in action soldiers in Vietnam. These bracelets had been produced by a group to keep in front of us that there were many missing soldiers…

Matthew 13:24-30,36-43
Well I think we’re solidly into summer now. We’ve made that final slide after the wrapping up of the school year, planning a vacation, and all kind of nice warm weather coming our way. I can almost feel the little reduction in activity…

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
My favorite Broadway show is Les Miserables. I’ve seen it three times. And when I was budgeting myself to see Broadway when I lived nearby in Connecticut and New Jersey I knew that I was giving up something new for something I’d already seen…

Matthew 28:16-20
I came here from New Jersey about six months ago and I noticed that things are different in New Jersey than they are in North Carolina. In my first church I finished the service and I walked to the narthex to greet people and a couple of folks were over in the corner kind of whispering to each other…