Mark 12:38-44; November 10, 2024; Stewardship Sunday —– It would likely be easier to say it simply. To say it shortly. To just focus on the widow’s offering. To celebrate…
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Revelation 21:1-4; John 14:23-27; November 3, 2024; All Saints’ Sunday —– “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had…
Mark 10:46-42; Hebrews 7:26-28; October 27, 2024 “For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens….
Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-22; October 13, 2024; Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost — Encroaching upon the dawn of independence, he now disallows me from sitting inside with him. I can’t even…
Hebrews 1:1-3a; 2:5-8a, 10-12; October 6, 2024; World Communion Sunday — “Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways.” – Hebrews 1:1 Long ago, about 14.7…
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…
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…