Weekly Sermons

True Confessions. I love the Lord of the Rings. Book, movie. Doesn’t matter. If I played video games, the Lord of the Rings would be my choice.  Has anyone ever NOT read or seen it?

The truth shall set us free. That’s what Jesus said, to encourage those who believed and wanted to follow Him. The truth shall set you free. Years ago I was friends with a young man

There’s a word I love in the Hebrew scriptures. It’s chesed. Chesed is faithful love. It’s not eros- erotic love. It’s not philia- like philanthropy- love of humankind in general. No, chesed looks more like

Do you all realize just how lucky you are that I am even here today?  Of course not.  But it’s true.  When I was growing up, I often heard my father’s story of how he

When Jesus wept, the falling tear  in mercy flowed beyond all bound. When Jesus groaned, a trembling fear seized all  the guilty world around. Sometimes life is so hard, all we can do is sing

We’ve been studying the Gospel of Luke for the past several weeks, and a number of the scripture texts have been Jesus talking about money: How to use it, how not to use it, what

Jesus always says the most inconvenient things. Have you ever noticed that? “If anyone would come after me, let them deny themselves, take up their cross daily and follow Me.” (Luke 9:23) Then there’s last

Jim and the choir forbade me from including the song I REALLY wanted us to sing today. They said it was too… funereal. The rolled their eyes and grimaced when they practiced it. I just

Mark Twain once quipped, “A self-made man is like a self-laid egg.” I like that.  None of us create ourselves. Eugene Peterson, a wonderful pastor and scholar who has recently passed away, wrote, “We are

Sometimes, a scripture will just hit me the wrong way. That’s what this week’s scripture reading did: When you are invited to a wedding banquet, don’t sit in the place of honor, in case someone