Category Sermon Message

Yr B ~ Epiphany 6 ~ 2 Kings 5:1-14, Mark 1:40-45  We’re starting in the Hebrew Scriptures, or First Testament, or Old Testament this morning in a book called 2nd Kings which is about how the kings of Israel came…

Yr C ~ Pentecost 2 ~ 1 Kings 19:8-15a A person has a need, a deep spiritual need. They’re at the end of their rope. They’ve realized that their own energy and capacity is maxed out, and they need more…

Pentecost 1 ~ Romans 5:1-5, John 16:12-15 The passage from Romans that we started with today makes a huge assumption. Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Since…

Yr C ~ Pentecost ~ Genesis 11:1-9, and Acts 2:1-8, 11-18 We’re starting today with the famous story of the tower built in the land of Shinar – except we don’t call it that. We all know it as the…

Yr C ~ Easter 6 ~ Revelation 21:10, and 21:22 to 22:5 (part 4 of a 4-part series – please read the whole series!) We’ve been delving into the last book of the bible, a book called Revelation, for the…

Yr C ~ Easter 5 ~ Revelation 21:1-6 (part 3 of a 4-part series – please read the whole series!) The Book of Revelation is so convoluted and complicated with layer upon layer of imagery, and double meanings, and numerology,…

Yr C ~ Easter 4 ~ Revelation 7:9-17 It’s weird, but I think it’s wonderful! I really like this Book of Revelation, even as I struggle with wading through the language and the imagery. It’s really worth the effort because…

Yr C ~ Easter 3 ~ Revelation 5:11-14 Today’s passage in Revelation 5 is a beautiful celebration of praise and adoration for the risen Christ, and for God. Unfortunately, many of us in modern, Mainline Protestant churches can’t hear that…

Yr C ~ Easter Sunday ~ Luke 24:1-12 Think of something in your life right now that’s very good – something that’s going well, it’s on the right track – something that wasn’t going so well before maybe, but now…

Maybe        Maybe they were actually starting to get it, to understand? Maybe that was the reason? Maybe it was that who Jesus was, and what he taught, and what the kingdom he embodied and revealed meant, maybe all that was…