Sermon for First Sunday of Advent Sunday, December 2, 2012 Luke 21:25-36 (click for link) One day, as a child, I was mindlessly flipping through the television stations. And as I flipped, I came upon this program that was totally foreign to me. The program was in black and white, which was weird enough already,… Read more

Sermon from the Last Sunday after Pentecost Christ the King Sunday, November 25 John 18:33-37 (click for link) Now I am asking all of you to use your imagination for a second, and fly back in your mind, to that scary, murky world of high school economics. Do you remember that class? Do you remember… Read more

Sermon for Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, November 18 Mark 13:1-8 (click for the link) We all have seasons in our lives. A season to grow, a season to learn, a season to be born, and a season to die. Right now, Maggie and I are in a season. We are in that season of… Read more

Sermon for Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Sunday, November 11 Mark 12:38-44  Some men are crazy, some men are stupid, some men are brave. And some are a little of each. Felix Baumgartner is one of those such men. A few weeks ago, Felix captivated the world’s attention by a crazy, stupid, and brave feat. Felix… Read more

Sermon for All Saints’ Sunday November 4, 2012 John 11:32-44 Our church has been divided. It’s a bitter division, and we are torn apart by words. Words like “beseech,” “manifold,” “vouchsafe,” and that real tongue twister, “innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.” That wonderful 8:00 o’clock crowd wants that good old Elizabethan language.… Read more

 Sermon for Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost October 21, 2012 Mark 10:35-45 For the past week, I have been wandering in a distant land. I was a foreigner, a nomad, in an alien world. I was lost among a people I did not know speaking a language I could not understand. What was it all about?… Read more