Sermons

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  Watch the sermon here. Luke 1:26-38 Who, what, where, when, why. The “Five Ws” they are sometimes called, and according to Wikipedia, together they create “a formula for getting the complete story on a subject.”  They are all equally important, I’m sure, but I sometimes wonder if some of us put more emphasis on one than the others

  Watch the sermon here. Luke 1:5-23 There is so much interesting background information on this text that I could preach for twenty minutes before getting to a point.  So I will try to limit my background information to three areas. First, our passage begins “In the days of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah.”

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Watch the video here. Deuteronomy 8:6-18 I imagine that every politician has, at least once, said something they wish they could take back. Maybe it was something inappropriate that they shouldn’t have said, or maybe it was something that just didn’t come out quite right. For Barack Obama, one of those occurred on July 13, 2012, when he got

Watch the sermon here. 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13 This is a dangerous text to preach on during stewardship season, and especially on this day we consecrate our pledges. You see, Paul is defending his ministry by reminding the people that he doesn’t accept any payment from them, but works a regular job for a living.  You see my dilemma!  Every

Click here to watch the sermon.   Exodus 33:12-23 Before AnnElissa and I tell the story, I want to set the scene.  When Moses went up on the mountain to talk with God and get the Ten Commandments, the people didn’t realize how long he would be gone.  They went to Aaron and said, “Come, make gods for us, who shall

Watch the sermon here.   Exodus 20:12-21 I think it’s a shame what we’ve done to and with the Ten Commandments, particularly this half of them.  We took the archaic language of the King James Version with its “Thou shalt nots,” and we made it into the voice of God, like this: Thou shalt not! We made God a

  Watch the sermon here. Exodus 20 On the Religion News Service website, there is a blog by Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin called “Martini Judaism: For those who want to be shaken and stirred.” This is what he had to say this week: “I am usually not great at predicting things. But I can predict the sermon topic that will

Watch the sermon here.   Philippians 2:1-5 As I have prepared for World Communion Sunday this week, one of my favorite communion stories from my childhood kept coming to mind. There was an old couple in our church who both had hearing problems.  I’m guessing hearing aids were not as good then as they are now, but neither one