Mark 9:38-41; James 4:13-17; 5:19-20; September 29, 2024; Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and…
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Mark 9:30-37; James 3:16-17; September 22, 2024; Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost “For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind. But…
Mark 8:27-33; James 3:5b-6a; 10; September 15, 2024; Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Someone here, who reads The Happenings, saw my sermon title in advance, and asked me if this would…
Mark 7:24-30; James 2:1-4; 8; September 8, 2024; Homecoming Sunday Like many of you I’m sure, we cut the cord years ago. We looked at our cable bill and said,…
Mark 7:1-8, 15, 21-23; James 1:22; 27; 2:14-17; September 1, 2024; Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Two church leaders, friends, once got into an argument about the purpose of the Sunday…
Luke 10:38-42; August 25, 2024; Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Someone once said to me, “Brian, you must be interesting to live with.” Now, taken at face value, that can be…
2 Samuel 11:26-12:13; Ephesians 4:14-16; August 4, 2024; Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Yeah, I didn’t necessarily want to preach this one either. Another murky bit of scripture. But it’s a…
Ephesians 3:14-19; 2 Samuel 11:1-15; July 28, 2024; Tenth Sunday after Pentecost “Forgive me Lord, through Christ I pray, the wrong that I have done this day… that I, before…
Mark 6:14-29; July 18, 2024; Ninth Sunday after Pentecost “When terror wakes me from my dreams and shakes me through and through… “ – verse 3 of the preceding hymn,…
Mark 6:1-6; 10-12; July 14, 2024; Eighth Sunday after Pentecost This is a true story. In the year 1919, a somewhat quiet, somewhat different sort of 18-year-old boy took a…