If you always strive to be who you are made to be, you find yourself being better suited and ready to do whatever duties that the world puts on you.
Category: Sermons
Beasts & Babies Teach the Language of Love
The relationships we build with our pets and with our children draw us closer to God, that they teach us about God.
Remembering the Ashes: 15th Anniversary of September 11
Fifteen years ago, I stepped into the pulpit just days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with a shattered heart and sore soul. I wanted to share that sermon today in remembrance.
Speak the Language of God’s Love
Have you ever noticed the collect, the prayer that the officiant says before the scripture readings at each of our Sunday services? Each week it is different and it is thematically related to the readings that have been appointed for the day. These prayers are all encompassing and audacious. They are meant to “collect” the…
Lessons in Authority & Healing
I started my weekend on Friday afternoon. My family decided to go to the movies. We decided that we were going to see X-Men: Apocalypse (No fear, I promise you that, since the movie just opened, there will be no spoilers in this sermon.) As we drove to the theater, I noticed that many of…
Abiding Love & the Journey of Marriage
In the best marriages each person is both lucky AND wonderful.
Guess How Much God Loves You
Anyone who has ever known a kid has had the experience of reading the same story over and over and over again. And then reading it a few hundred more times. This is a story book that was a favorite of both my daughters. I read it about a million times. It’s called Guess How…
Prophet or Jerk: How We Can Tell the Difference?
There are no jerks here….only human beings trying desperately to do the will of God and speak the truth.
Christmas Message: Choose Wisely, Choose Love
Right after Thanksgiving, the Christmas music started on the radio (And of course, we’ve been hearing it in the stores and shopping malls since Halloween!). I waited and I waited, but I never heard my favorite Christmas song. The title is When Love Came Down. It was written in 1999 by a songwriter named Chris…
Giving Thanks for a New Year
If we look closely at the world, we can see two timelines unfolding side by side, moment by moment. First, you have the worldly timeline. We all know about that one. It’s the one that brings us headlines about bombings in Paris and in Bangladesh. It’s where we hear about mass shootings in Colorado Springs….
Giving Birth to a New World Vision
Let me share a sampling of the headlines I encountered on my preferred online news outlet yesterday. Of course, many pointed to the terrible attacks on Paris, but there were many others: Nightmare in Paris: Terrorists Kill 150 ISIS Claims Responsibility, Calling Paris Attacks ‘First of the Storm’ Tour bus crashes at S.F.’s Union Square:…
The Wisdom of Welcome
The other day on television, I was watching a reality cooking show called the Rachel Ray’s Kids Cook Off. All of these 11 and 12 year olds are competing to win the chance to do an on-line cooking show and win money that will be put away as a scholarship to cooking school when they…
Scattered Revelations 