Ephesians 6:10-20, John, 6:56-69
I was not very athletic as a child. I was the one who was picked last on the playground whenever there was a pickup game. I never belonged to any of the teams that they had at school…
Ephesians 6:10-20, John, 6:56-69
I was not very athletic as a child. I was the one who was picked last on the playground whenever there was a pickup game. I never belonged to any of the teams that they had at school…
Ephesians 5:15-20, John 6:51-58
I’d like to start this morning by asking a bit of a cruel question. It’s bible related, and don’t worry, you don’t have to answer out loud or show your hands. How familiar are you with the book of Ephesians? …
John 6:35, 41-51
A couple of weeks ago I was away for a while and went up with my family to New York to visit with my dad and to visit with my daughter and her husband in Connecticut and to spend some time there…
Ephesians 4:1-16, John 6:24-35
About seventeen years ago, during my very first year of ordained ministry at a little church in Mountain View California, a man knocked on the door of the church office, late one Friday afternoon…
Ephesians 3:14-21, John 6:1-21
One of my fondest childhood memories is of short trips to what was then a sleepy college town, Chapel Hill, in the summer with my parents and my brother Eddie. My father was then a high school principal…
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
G-Force is the measure of the strength of force on an object. Physics tells us: G-Force: the strength of the force on an object. Think of it as multiples of gravity. We walk around on Earth; it’s one G…
Mark 6:14-29
I think most everyone is familiar with the movie about The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. And during one part of the movie a singer with a very low bass sings about the horror of the Grinch…
2 Corinthians 12: 2-10
When the grenade exploded in his hand near Khe Sanh in Vietnam in 1967 Max Cleland thought his life was over. He was a radio engineer sent to the top of a hill to set up a radio station for the troops…
Mark 5:21-43
Miracles … really? We hear this reading from Mark’s gospel this morning and there’s a story of the father who asks Jesus to heal his daughter and at the end of the story we find that he raises her from the dead…
1 Samuel 17:1a, 4-7, 32-49
The David and Goliath story is one of those biblical references that’s crossed over into secular culture in a big way. An unranked sports team takes on a national championship winner…