Carmen gave me one rule about preaching: Never mention her in a sermon. Since I’ve already violated that rule, I might as well continue. Carmen and I got engaged in…
This is an unusual Sunday for us, this Sunday in the midst of the Labor Day holiday, and so I hope I might have your permission to preach a somewhat…
Text: Romans 8:24b: “Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen?” It breaks no news to tell you that we live in an age…
Text: Matthew 28:2: "And suddenly there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven, came and rolled back the stone and sat on it." The…
Text: Psalm 42:5: Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation…
Text: Romans 4:5: “...to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.” Just so there is no confusion, I’ll say at the…
Text: John 6:68: “Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom can we go?’” The relationship between the disciples and Jesus as depicted in the Gospels is by no means an…
Text: Romans 14:4: “Who are you to pass judgment on servants of another? It is before their own lord that they stand or fall.” I know that Saint John’s has a…
Of the sixteen years that I’ve been a member here at St. John’s, I’ve served on the Stewardship committee probably a bit more than half. Every year that I prepared…