Sermons

Our Needs are Holy to God: the Need to Love and Be Loved

Is there any need of children, and of us all, that comes more readily to mind than the need to love and be loved? […]

I was reading recently the new biography of Theodor Geisel, Becoming Dr. Seuss. I discovered that he counseled writers of children’s books to try […]

Jesus had promised his disciples that the Holy Spirit would come, and so it did. Fifty days after Easter at the Jewish festival of […]

I have been wanting to preach this sermon for a long time but did not feel free of mind and heart to do so. […]

What’s going on with your feelings going these days? In an old comic strip, Shoe, the newpaper editor sits at his desk and says, […]

Herod, Peter, Rhoda and the Church at PrayerActs 12:1-24 Here is one of the wildest chapters in the Bible. It’s like a short story […]

I’ve been thinking this week about the dawning of Easter, that first dawning of Easter in the garden, and the dawning of Easter […]

This is the last of my Lenten sermons on Baptism as a Living Symbol of The Christian Life. I call it, Baptism: Dying and […]

Baptism is a living symbol of the Christian life. Two of its most important meanings are the New Birth and the New Creation. The first […]

At baptism I lay hands on the ones being baptized as they come up out of the water. I offer them a prayer that is […]

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