Mark 9:30-37
I’d like to start off with a question this morning, and that’s this: if you want to express gratitude for something, what do you most often say? I hope, “thank you,” right? …
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Worship. Serve. Grow.
Sermons (Page 55)
Mark 8:27-38
I am a great fan of the cartoons in the New Yorker magazine. One of my favorites that I often refer to is a scene where a woman is talking to somebody and she says, “Well, enough about me. Let’s talk about you. So what do you think about me?”…
Mark 7:24-37
Sparring is a big part of sports training. Sparring is the way students of a sport practice with each other so that they can learn new skills. It’s usually very well monitored when students are sparring…
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Brenda is a priest that I know who is the rector of a large Episcopal church in Manhattan. I got to know Brenda when I was in my former parish in the Diocese of New York…
Ephesians 6:10-20, John, 6:56-69
I was not very athletic as a child. I was the one who was picked last on the playground whenever there was a pickup game. I never belonged to any of the teams that they had at school…
Ephesians 5:15-20, John 6:51-58
I’d like to start this morning by asking a bit of a cruel question. It’s bible related, and don’t worry, you don’t have to answer out loud or show your hands. How familiar are you with the book of Ephesians? …
John 6:35, 41-51
A couple of weeks ago I was away for a while and went up with my family to New York to visit with my dad and to visit with my daughter and her husband in Connecticut and to spend some time there…
Ephesians 4:1-16, John 6:24-35
About seventeen years ago, during my very first year of ordained ministry at a little church in Mountain View California, a man knocked on the door of the church office, late one Friday afternoon…
Ephesians 3:14-21, John 6:1-21
One of my fondest childhood memories is of short trips to what was then a sleepy college town, Chapel Hill, in the summer with my parents and my brother Eddie. My father was then a high school principal…
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
G-Force is the measure of the strength of force on an object. Physics tells us: G-Force: the strength of the force on an object. Think of it as multiples of gravity. We walk around on Earth; it’s one G…