What Are You Doing?

For Sunday, December 11, 2016 – Matthew 11:2-11 During this season of your life, what are you doing? What are you expecting? Where will you go for fulfillment? What are you likely to find there? What is John the Baptist doing? Once a popular reformer drawing crowds to the wilderness with his fiery call to […]

Disturbed by God

For Sunday, December 4, 2016 – Matthew 3:1-12 – Matthew 3:1-12 Followers of Jesus do not think alike. Why does it surprise us when we learn we are divided on many issues? Maybe it is because we segregate ourselves according to theological understandings and differences in class, race, styles of worship, levels of education, and we begin […]

Wake Up

For Sunday, November 27, 2016 – Matthew 24:36-44 In the dream I am en route to an unknown destination when the pilot announces that all who are going to change planes should now gather their belongings and prepare to transfer. I am one of the transferring passengers so I scoop up my carry-on and join about five or six others […]

Beyond Our Understanding

For Sunday, November 13, 2016 – Luke 21:5-19 Part of the trouble with us—and Jesus sees this clearly and calls us out—is that we prefer to place our hope in the things of this world, to seek our fulfilment from the powers around us, rather than from the eternal. We can see evidence of God’s love being freely given, […]