Texts: John 14:15-21 Our Gospel reading continues that of last Sunday, with the disciples gathered with Jesus at the Table, listening to his farewell words. The relationship between disciples and Teacher—then and now—is not to degenerate into sentimentality or a
Sermon: Greater Works Than These Easter 5, May 22, 2011
Text: John 14:1-14 The verses that we heard today, so familiar to us from their frequent use at funerals and at cemeteries, contain another one of those verses that cause modern, thoughtful Christians—exposed to other world religions, and to biographies
Sermon: How to Grow A Church May 15, 2011
Texts: Psalm 23; Acts 2:42-47 First a word about the Scripture that was NOT read this morning: the passage from John 10, and I Peter 2:19-25. The 10th chapter of John has been used and abused in so many situations
Third Sunday after Easter: In Our Midst
Text: Luke 24:13-35 The story of the revelation along the Emmaus Road at the Inn is a story of how Easter becomes local, how it comes into our midst where we live. Two relatively unknown followers of Jesus, Cleopas, and
Second Sunday in Easter: “An Imperishable Inheritance”
Texts: I Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31 Time is short this morning, which reminds me of a line from Alice in Wonderland, where at the Tea Party with the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse, with riddles abounding, she comments sighing wearily,
Easter Sunday Sermon: Go With It
Texts: Acts 10:34-4; Matthew 27:62-Matthew 28:10 I like our small quiet celebrations here in the countryside because so much of what happens in other places—with all the trumpets, with all the drama, with the huge choirs and their alleluias—all