Texts: I Thessalonians 5:9-11; II Thessalonians 3:6-13 (After the Thessalonians text is read, a large, dead shrub is set on top of the...

Texts: Mark 12:41-44; The Book of Ruth On this All Saints’ Sunday, we have just read about an unlikely saint, a widow who is now...

Text: Mark 8:27-34 I have never traveled to Frog Hollow but at critical points in my life, I have found myself there. Some of you may...

Text: Romans 8:27-34 Libel Mueller, an American, German-born, Pulitzer Prize winning poet has penned a poem that I love more each time I...

Text: Mark 10:46-52 In Anthony Doerr’s breathtaking novel, All the Light We Cannot See, a mysterious Frenchman asks, "What do we call...

Text: Mark 10:17-27 I have so much left to learn. I have, though, learned one lesson in this life that serves me well whenever I pay...

Text: Mark 10:1-16 On the first day of elementary school each year, I would leave the house with brand new notebooks, freshly sharpened...

Text: Mark 9:38-50 Jesus says some really harsh words in this text from Mark’s Gospel. I have never seen these words slapped on a bumper...