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 […]
The Dilemma of Gifts
For Sunday, February 8, 2015 – Mark 1:29-39 Jesus clearly is gifted at healing the sick and curing them of many diseases. Healing simply is his nature, so it makes sense that he becomes widely known for these merciful acts. In the synagogue, in the streets, in private homes—everywhere he goes, people need healing and […]
