Happy Easter!! Allelulia, Christ is Risen! The Lord is Risen Indeed, Allelulia! This is the night, this is the day, this is the season to celebrate new life in all of its forms!! Spring is showing up all around us…there is hope that winter is over…
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Sermons (Page 81)
I’ve heard it said that Americans are all but schizophrenic when it comes to the subject of death. I can’t believe that we haven’t become jaded by the thousands of people we have seen beaten, tortured, gunned down, or assassinated on television or in the movies…
A couple had two little boys, ages 8 and 10, who were excessively mischievous. The two were always getting into trouble and their parents could be assured that if any mischief occurred in their town, their two young sons were in some way involved…
During a reception to honor musician Sir Robert Mayer on his 100th birthday, elderly British socialite Lady Diana Cooper fell into conversation with a friendly woman who seemed to know her well. Lady Diana’s failing eyesight prevented her from recognizing her fellow guest…
John 9:1-41.
I’ve often said before, and I want to remind you of this to put this reading in context, and that’s this: when we read the scriptures, and we hear about the religious customs or traditions of its time, particularly Judaism, we’re not so much just reading about Judaism, but we’re really reading about all religion…
When I was growing up, my family went camping a lot. It started when I was in elementary school, camping in tents, and we even had a teepee for a little while. Then we got this trailer we pulled behind our station wagon. It was 17 feet long and seven people could sleep in it. So I still love camping but I have learned in my adult life to go “wilderness camping.”…
I’d like to share three things with you this morning: one from that reading from Genesis about Abraham, one from our Gospel reading about Nicodemus, and another experience I had on Ash Wednesday…
As I was thinking last week about our readings for today, the first Sunday in Lent, my thoughts kept returning to a period in my life about fifteen years ago, I think, when I would make frequent trips to my hometown to check on my parents well being, a routine not unfamiliar to some of you, I suspect…
So you’re at the checkout line at Harris Teeter or Food Lion. There’s a person in front of you and all their stuff has gone through. It’s time to pay. The person takes out their piece of plastic and puts it through. It’s always a debit or credit, or pays cash and there’s some problem…
When I was a young adult I remember my father repeating a story that his father was born before cars existed. That means probably before there were any roads. Then by the time Grandpa died and he was 95 years old and we had put a man on the moon. So my dad was overwhelmed about the amount of change that had taken place in our world in these less than 100 years of his own father’s life…