When I met Clara, she was already 101. She had lived in her home for a good 77 of those years. She moved from her parents’ home, one filled with violence and exacting rules to her husband’s family farm, where she was never good enough, but her one son was the apple of everyone’s eye…
Today, we pick up on the miracles of God that we began talking about last week in this series of Does God still move today? We have often heard people whisper in moments of honesty and fear that God does not still move among us. They read the incredible stories from the Old and New…
This morning, we begin a new sermon series on Does God still Move Today? Miracles in the Bible and Miracles today. We have sometimes imagined that God’s primary work was done between the borders of Genesis and Revelation. That God did incredible and miraculous acts contained in the Bible, but is no longer in that…
On this Mother’s day, here is a top list of things you might have heard a mother say: Do not use your arm as a tissue Did you say thank you? Please use your inside voice No running in the house If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Does…
Do you remember playing whisper down the lane in school? Sometimes, called telephone. It was where the person at the front of the line would begin with a phrase and each one would whisper it, one to the other, until at the end, you saw what it had become. Somehow, Miss Smith’s class has 6…
Good stories are those that when they are done – we all finding ourselves saying or thinking, Oh! Tell it Again! This is why we have all read our children Cat in the Hat, Good Night Moon, Where the Wild Things Are and other favorites again and again and again. I think many of us have had the experience of the same…
Do you remember where you were on August 24th, 2006? It was a Thursday if that helps. For me, I was waiting for Alisabeth’s birth, having just finished directing Vacation Bible School at Lehman Memorial United Methodist Church. I was sitting down, propping up my feet and checking out the news. This news came in…
We continue this morning in a series of messages on one-word prayers. During this Lenten season, we have been intentionally focusing on a time of prayer. We have looked at prayers of confession, supplication, petition, and intercession with our Oops! Help! Why? Please! This week, we lift our hands and voices in WOW! Luke’s parable…
On Wednesday, we began a new series on prayer. Prayer is that incredible communication that you and I have with God. We have often imagined that prayer has to be well formed and articulate, beautiful and worthy of cross-stitching and framing for the dining room. In reality, prayer is much messier and more authentic than that. Prayer is every time you and…
After a snow hiatus last week, we find ourselves continuing in the series traveling with Paul on the calls in our lives. Paul traveled extensively throughout the Ancient World sharing the gospel, encountering open hearts and conflicts, often in the same place. As we talk this morning about one of the most familiar names and…