[There is no audio for this sermon.] Text: John 14:9c: “How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?” Maybe it’s because I am in the middle of middle age. Or…

A Time for Renewal

January 9, 2017
(No audio for this sermon is available.) Text: Matthew 3:15: “...Jesus answered him, ‘Let it be so now...’” His parents must be very proud of him. He’s come such a…

The Wrong Righteousness

August 25, 2016
Text: Luke 13:14: “...the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, ‘There are six days on which work ought to be…
Text: Luke 3:17: "His winnowing-fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable…
Text:  Luke 2:48: “When his parents saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, ‘Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have…

Resignation—and Resolve

August 23, 2015
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…

The Problem With Sheep

May 18, 2015
Text: John 10:11: “I am the good shepherd.” We have two very different ideas to hold together today, two very distinct ideas, and both of them are contained in the reading…