Distilling A Lifetime of Faith  This is one of the hardest sermons I have ever had to write. This is a time of both joy and sorrow.  I have written […]

 In the Beginning, God …  (the opening of this sermon was inspired by a sermon I heard some time ago,  but I’ve forgotten the preacher and the details)  In the […]

 The Miracle of Pentecost  We’ve talked a lot about the Holy Spirit in the last couple of weeks. Last week, we heard Jesus promise that God’s holy Spirit would come. […]

 Waiting in Hope  Today is Ascension Sunday. Yayyyyy! I can hear you all cheering at that announcement.  Wait.  It’s what? What’s Ascension Sunday?  The joke on facebook this week is […]

 God is With Us  Last week, we sat with the disciples as they heard the news that Jesus would soon be gone. This week, we continue with that story. The […]

 Words to Live By  Clarence Jordan, a Southern US Bible scholar, once wrote, “The proof that God raised Jesus from the dead is not the empty tomb, but the full […]

 Pursued by Grace  I have preached quite a few sermons on Psalm 23. It’s a good psalm for a time like this, so I looked back over my files.  Number […]

 Hope Renewed  This is one of my favourite stories in the gospels. We move from John’s way of telling the resurrection story to Luke.  The women come to the tomb […]

 This year, it seems harder to make the transition from Lent to Easter. Death seems closer than life in this time. So many people are suffering physically and psychologically and […]

 Don’t Be Afraid  Easter is so very different this year.  For a while, at the beginning of this pandemic, I had thought that we would celebrate Easter on our first […]