Text: Philippians 4:4-7 I know just what I want for Christmas. No more seasonal socks. No more Christmas ties. Not one more sweater. What...

Text: Luke 3:1-6: Luke 3:1-6 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,...

Texts: Jeremiah 33:14-16; Luke 21:25-36 Christmas is in the air. Carols are playing on the downtown mall. Tree lots are busy moving...

Text: Colossians 1:11-20 “Come, ye thankful people come,” wrote Henry Alford in 1844, “Raise the song of harvest home; all is safely...

Text: Mark 12:38-44 What was her name? I wish I knew. I wonder if anyone in that sanctuary knew it or if she was just one more of the...

Text: Jeremiah 32:1-3a; 6-15; Revelation 21:1-6a Election Day draws nigh and with it comes the political rhetoric of “happily ever...

Mark 10:35-52 The story opens late at night. James and John, twins and disciples of Jesus, approach Jesus not with a question but a...

Romans 11:33-36; Revelation 21:3-4; 22:20-21 As a child, when the choir sang the threefold “Amen” after the benediction, my heart would...