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…
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…
1 Samuel 15:34-16:13
Once upon a time there were two traveling angels. And as they were traveling they often needed a place to spend the night. So one night they arrived at the home of a very rich man and his wife…
Mark 3:20-35
When my sister and I were little we loved watching westerns on TV. It’s been so long now that I can’t remember what show we were watching, but one of the older cowboys was whittling and was making a toy horse…