Text: Luke 12:40: “...the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.” Here we are in the middle of August, in the midst of some of the most pleasant…
Text: Luke 12:17: “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?” Perhaps more than in most other vocations, farmers tend to divide into two camps: Good farmers…
Text: Luke 10:40: "...Tell her to help me!" Like a lot of other anglophiles, I have my own little copy of that marvelous wartime motivational poster, the five words in all caps under…
Text: Luke 10:40: “...Tell her to help me!” Let me just begin with a word of warning. I am about to completely forgo the usual, predictable, expected message on the…
Text: Luke 10:29: “But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?’” I have been following a kind of discipline this summer of tying together the collect…
Text: Luke 10:5: “Whatever house you enter, first say. ‘Peace to this house!’” Here's a question: What’s the name of your neighbor? Do you know your neighbor? I’m embarrassed to…
Text: Luke 9:62: “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” Those of us who grew up watching public television in…
Text: Luke 8:35: “...they found the man from whom the demons had gone sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind.” We often have a lot…
Text: Luke 7:44: “....I entered your house...” Sometimes I really envy my Baptist sisters and brothers in the ministry. When you are a Baptist preacher, you get to choose what…
Text: Galatians 1:15–16: “But when God, who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that…