Sermons

We continue our journey through the Gospel of Luke using Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Preaching and Teaching by Fred Craddock as a guide. In this passage Jesus proclaims for the audience at the temple: “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” While it

It’s said that good fences make for good neighbors. And while there is accepted wisdom in those words from Robert Frost’s Mending Wall,  he muses elsewhere in the poem: “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know, what I was walling in or walling out.” Today’s

The message contained within the parable of the bridesmaids and the lamps, is that Jesus is calling us to live life responsibly and abundantly To accomplish this we much take stock of what we are carrying and lay down unnecessary burdens—shame, “should haves” and “could

Today’s message focuses on a story of two people who have had their debts forgiven — one a small debt and the other remarkably large. The lesson Jesus is imparting has to do with notions that we are more worthy in God’s eyes than others because we live better lives; are better