Lamentations 1:1-3; October 5, 2025; World Communion Sunday ——- Viktor E. Frankl, Austrian Philosopher and Holocaust survivor, once wrote: “If there is meaning in life at all, then there must…
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Jeremiah 8:18-9:1; September 15, 2025; Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost ——- “My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick.” – Jeremiah 8:18 — She put her in…
Luke 15:1-10; September 14, 2025; Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost —— Three points to today’s sermon, which in moments will sound like last week’s sermon. But sometimes scripture likes to repeat…
Exodus 20:16-17; Ephesians 4:14-16; September 7, 2025; Homecoming Sunday ——- It’s good to be back, my friends. And to be back in this pulpit after two good, restorative weeks away….
Exodus 20:14; Matthew 5:27-30; August 17, 2025; Tenth Sunday after Pentecost ——- Last week: murder. This week: lust. Yeah, I think next week is probably a good one for me…
Exodus 20:13; Matthew 5:21-22; August 10, 2025; Ninth Sunday after Pentecost ——- Months ago, when I began to think about this sermon series, I foolishly thought this might be the…
Exodus 20:12; Matthew 12:46-50; August 3, 2025; Eighth Sunday after Pentecost ——- “Honor your father and your mother.” – Exodus 20:12 On the surface this feels like one of the…
Exodus 20:8; Mark 2:23-28; July 27, 2025; Seventh Sunday after Pentecost —– Open My Eyes, That I May See — man, that [hymn] sounded like a lullaby, didn’t it? Just…
Exodus 20:7; Matthew 5:33-37; July 20, 2025; Sixth Sunday after Pentecost ——— In our house, there’s a show whose name we no longer say out loud. We call it either:…
Exodus 20:4-5a; 32:1-8; July 13, 2025; Fifth Sunday after Pentecost ——- How about that hymn (We Praise You, O God), huh? In direct response to our lesson. Isn’t worship planning…