Sermons Archive

Sermon   07-13-14                            Matthew 13: 1-9; 18-23

The story is told of an artist, whose specialty was abstract works, who when asked to explain one of his pieces on display remarked, “If I tell you, that’s all you’ll ever see there.”  (David Zersen)

          Such is one of the challenges, one of the risks, every...

Sermon    07-06-14                       Leviticus 25: 8-12               Isaiah 43:18-21

Having today, July 6th, fall on a Sunday, our holy day, and coming at the end of our nation’s three day July 4th holiday weekend, hopefully sparks within us all a sense of thanksgiving and reflection.  Thanksgiving at being the rich benefactor of the...

Sermon     06-29-12                            Matthew 10:40-42

It’s good to be back.   As much as I enjoyed my time away in recent weeks, coming back this week and re-engaging into the busy days at the Spring Glen Church over the past week has been a blessing.   There’s lots to tell you about my time in Alaska.   It’s an experience that...

          Once upon a time, there were two people, who were very much in love.   Unfortunately, their studies at college took them far apart, one studying on the East Coast and the other on the West Coast.  This was some time ago, before cell phones, computers and the internet, and even before regular telephones,...

“They hate us more than they love life.”

I don’t get to read him as often as I like, or as often as I should, but I have long been a fan of New York Times writer Thomas Friedman.  Friedman reports on news and issues impacting life in the Mid-East and his columns in the early days after 9-11 were incredibly profound to my mind.   In one of...

Last month marked the 118th running of the Boston Marathon.   Serious competitors in events as grueling as these, as well as many other physically demanding sports, often use a discipline known as cross-training in preparation for the big event.  Body-builders also use cross-training to develop a specific part of...

                I doubt very much if Tennyson had recently read the prophecies of Ezekiel when he proclaimed his infamous words of encouragement in the midst of loss—“Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”

          The reason I say that is that Ezekiel had the demanding job put upon him by God to prophecy to...

Several events of recent weeks which haunt us all led me to give thought to how Jesus has responded to questions about evil and suffering in the world.  The mysterious disappearance of the Malaysian airliner, on what appeared to be a routine flight, is an event likely to cause us all heartache and grief.   It is hard not to picture ourselves...