“Being poor, they are accustomed to share.”
Sermons
A Summons
In any story that involves a summons, there is a crucial question that must inevitably be resolved:
Will the person who is summoned heed the call?
The Most Important Thing
As we gather, this morning, we are teetering on the edge of a new year – 2024. In the fall of this coming year a momentous event will take place. I am referring, of course, to the thirtieth anniversary of my daughter, Isabel’s birth. (I seem to think there might be something else happening in […]
Generational Joy
A few days before, Mary had made herself small, by saying “I am the Lord’s Servant.”
Now she says: “My soul magnifies the Lord.”
The Kingdom of Heaven will be like this….
“The kingdom of heaven will be like this…” You will recall that this is the crucial phrase that transformed this story into a parable.
But there is something else about it.
Job Title Blues
I’d put on that coat, head out back, and wander through those somber gray days of my youth…
We are Neighbors!
I ask you to understand that, as Christians, we must be humble…
Humble not only before our God, but before our fellow creatures as well.
We cannot, we must not, pretend to be innocent.