Pastors’ Sermons

Jim and the choir forbade me from including the song I REALLY wanted us to sing today. They said it

Mark Twain once quipped, “A self-made man is like a self-laid egg.” I like that.  None of us create ourselves.

Sometimes, a scripture will just hit me the wrong way. That’s what this week’s scripture reading did: When you are

This day marks 400 years since the first arrival of enslaved Africans in English-speaking North America. They landed in late

“Don’t be like Garfield”?  What does that have to do with today’s Scripture reading?  According to the cartoon that adorns

So here we are headed towards summer’s finish line. It’s the first week in August and what wonderful holiday do

The Lord’s Prayer shows up twice in the Gospels. The one we all know and say every week is in

When reading scripture, it’s always important to pay attention to what comes before, and what comes after a story. Like

Have you ever felt completely isolated- alone- like there is no one there you can lean on? Have you ever