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Sermons on Galatians
Peter, who is almost 5 and in Prekindergarten this year, and I both chose Fridays as a day of Sabbath. As the girls finish the week at school and Steve completes his work week, Peter and I remember that God rested on the seventh day and commands us to do likewise on our Fridays together. We often spend this time in nature,…
What Makes a Hero: Justice During the month of July, we have celebrated heat waves and the 50th anniversary of the walking on the Moon with Apollo 11. We have looked at our human condition through the lens of the movies. As we watched Simba from the Lion King, we reflected on the courage to remember who we are in Christ Jesus…
Keep your hand at the plow! Don’t look back! Freedom comes after you take steps. It was January 27, 1956, a twenty-seven-year-old Martin Luther King Junior, sat in his kitchen in Montgomery, Alabama nursing a cup of coffee, unable to sleep. His life was threatened, and the bus boycott was failing. Earlier in the evening, a caller had warned, “If you aren’t…
SHARING A STORY OF FAITHText: Galatians 3:23-29 and Luke 8:26-39 Last week Pastor Monica spoke about Share a Story of Hope, Christian hope on how we live today and live for tomorrow. Today we continue this theme with Share a Story of Faith. Hope and faith go together they are bound to each other. We see this in the Biblical definition of…
Greatest Joy!A priest, an evangelist, and a minister were in a row boat in the middle of a pond fishing. None of them had caught anything all morning. Then the evangelist stands up and says he needs to go to the bathroom, so he climbs out of the boat and walks on the water to shore. He comes back ten minutes later…
The story goes that two frogs fell into a tub of cream. One looked at the high sides of the tub which were too difficult to crawl over and said, “It is hopeless.” So, he resigned himself to death, relaxed, and sank to the bottom. The other one determined to keep swimming as long as…