“It’s fairly simple.” That’s when you know you are in for it. “Not much to it.” He said to me as Ben handed me a caulk gun from the supply trailer. Four years ago, our church sent a volunteers-in-mission team to Crisfield, Maryland, on the Eastern shore to provide still needed recovery help after Hurricane Sandy. We arrived four years after the…
In these great fifty days after Easter, Jesus continues his resurrection tour. On tour, he has shown up multiple times with the disciples as he promised to do. We have seen him with the women at the tomb, in the upper room, on the road to Emmaus. In our gospel lesson this morning, we finish the reading from the last verses of…
“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.(1)” These words began Charles…
God’s dream for humanityDid you ever play the game who or what is missing? In elementary school, I can remember sitting around the circle with my class. One student would go into the hallway. While that student was in the hallway, the teacher would chose a student in the circle to “hide.” Maybe they would hide in the closet or the bathroom.…
Last week Pastor Monica spoke to us about being rooted in faith. She used the illustration of two trees; how the roots underground twist into one another, leading to the two trees dependent on one another for life. Pastor Monica shared that like the trees, our roots to one another lead us to be connected and dependent on one another. Our common…
Megan Ashley was riding on the plane from San Diego to Nashville when she overheard an older woman telling a young man how nervous she was about this flight. For her first flight in 15 years, the ninety-six-year-old woman needed someone to talk to and reassure her. There was no expectation that this man she had just been assigned to sit next…
“Give Us A Protector Of the Realm: A Judge!”If you think the Bible is filled only with images of Precious Moments from your Curio Cabinet and your Nativity figurines, it may be that you have not gotten a chance to read the book of Judges before. And perhaps, that is because, you have not heard a sermon on Judges! Recently, I took…