As you know, the church year has seasons, and each season has a dominant theme. It is also true that standing next to each season’s theme is the ultimate reality, the ultimate theme to which all things in the Christian
3rd Sunday after the Epiphany, 2023
Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Kenneth Davis is a New York Times best-selling author of a series of books, each titled “Don’t Know Much About…” There is
2nd Sunday after the Epiphany, 2023
Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. Up until the recent past, children in the West, and in the Middle East as well, were raised
Christmas Eve, 2022 – Sermon
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. There’s an old theological axiom. They go back to the early church fathers — some scholars attribute it
4th Sunday in Advent, 2022
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. Isaiah 7:14: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and give birth to a son, and shall call him
Midweek Advent Service (Week 3), 2022 – Sermon
One of the unique features of both the Bible and the Christian faith is the historical honesty in recording the lives of its heroes. Sinners all. Here’s a biblical fact that people don’t hear much about. Okay: David had 19
3rd Sunday in Advent, 2022
Grace, mercy, and peace from our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. In the late ’60s and throughout the 1970s, the arrival of summer at our home
Midweek Advent Service (Week 2), 2022 – Sermon
Really probably the second recorded dysfunctional family in the Bible, but dysfunctional nonetheless. As you know, God promised Abram and Sarah a son through whom the nations of the earth would be blessed, and the promised Messiah would come. You
2nd Sunday in Advent, 2022
About 15 years ago, there was a rather popular commercial on TV, and it had several different versions of it. The core was fundamentally the same. There’s a fireplace scene in a nice, old kind of study room, and a
Midweek Advent Service (Week 1), 2022
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Amen. When parents find out that a child is on the way — either by birth or by adoption — it’s only