No Humor at the Cross

No Humor at the Cross

Apr 14, 2019 | Sermons

April 14, 2019 Matthew 26:27-44 My earliest memory of school takes me back to the summer before I entered the first grade. There was no preschool in my day so my parents sent me to summer school to get me used to riding the bus and the regimen of the school routine....
The Comedy of Jonah – The Absurdity of God

The Comedy of Jonah – The Absurdity of God

Mar 31, 2019 | Sermons

March 31, 2019 Jonah 1:1-17 It is difficult to say whether the following story is legend or truth or a combination of the two. Regardless, it can be said that the story is true to the character of Abraham Lincoln. President Lincoln received a letter from an...

The Lessons The Broccoli Tree Have for Easter

Apr 1, 2018 | Blog, Sermons

Easter Sunrise Service One spring day a photographer living near the Southern shore of Lake Vattern, Sweden took a picture of a tree and posted it on Instagram because he thought it looked like a stalk of broccoli sticking up out of the ground.   Forty-three people...
This Is How People Know You Are a Disciple

This Is How People Know You Are a Disciple

Mar 29, 2018 | Blog, Sermons

For most of us, the thought of washing someone’s feet is repulsive unless it is someone we know really, really well and even then we are not very willing. A few years ago, I served as the camp pastor at a youth camp at Ricks Institute, which is sixteen miles outside...

From C1 to T7 Avoiding Lust

Jan 28, 2018 | Sermons

Matthew 5:27-30 January 28, 2018 Several months ago, I was listening to a radio station that attracts listeners by allowing them to play armchair therapists. It works like this.  A caller phones in with a problem and the disk jockey moderates the responses of other...

Murder is More than Premeditated Killing

Jan 21, 2018 | Sermons

Matthew 5:21-26 January 21, 2018 The laws of our country resulted from the laws of other great civilizations, which are noted in the rock face of the “Eastern Pediment” of the Supreme Court Building.  Front and center is Moses holding the Ten Commandments. One of the...