Sermons

The need to belong is a basic human desire—we were made to be together. Unfortunately, the need to draw those hard lines of demarcation also seems to be part of our basic human nature. So we separate ourselves based on dogma, on the good works we do versus what other people do, on whether we

Eye opening experiences often come when we least expect them, and certainly when we have no room, or patience, or time for them. Today’s scripture tells the story of Saul, a person who was ravaging the church, being struck blind before having his eyes opened to a new way of seeing; a new

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