Love

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? […]

Our Needs are Holy to God: The Need for Security

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 […]

Baptism: Living Symbol of the Christian Life- Following Jesus and Being the Beloved, March 2020

This season, Lent to Easter, let’s ponder Baptism as a living symbol of the Christian life. It is, in my mind, the most complete and […]

It All Begins With a Woman and a Child

There may be few scenes in the Bible painted more often through the centuries than the Annunciation, when the angel Gabriel visits Mary and […]

Living God’s Dream of Peace 12/19

“Peace, Peace, Peace” is the theme of this year’s Advent season. In Isaiah’s vision of the coming Messiah he wrote—and I can almost hear Handel’s […]

The Care of the Earth as a Form of the Love of God and Neighbor 5/19

Today is Earth Day Sunday at Grace. The title of the sermon is “The Care of Creation as a Form of the Love of […]

A Man Went Down From Jerusalem 2/19

Have you ever noticed how many jokes and stories have three parts? “A rabbi, a priest and a Baptist preacher get to heaven….” A […]

The Way of Compassion 1/19

I am so grateful, and my congregation is so grateful, to be here today with you at First Baptist Church. And I am so […]

The Honda and the Bar Mitzvah 8/18

Can a church be a people of clear Christian identity and at the same time be open to truth found in other religions? Can we […]

What We Wear To Church 7/18

The passage for today, Colossians 3:12-17, was read at our wedding. If it applies to marriage, it first applied to life together in Christ, Christian […]