I confess that seeing how our passage, as my sermon title suggests, tells about the way to God isn’t something that is immediately obvious for what does Jesus clearing the temple of livestock and moneychangers have to do with our finding a path to God? The answer lies in verse …
This first Sunday of Lent, I am wondering what, if anything, have you decided to give up? According to a recent Christianity Today poll, as of Wednesday of last week Twitter placed the following items in the Lent Top 10! Starting with number 10 is soda Then Swearing comes in …
Not too long ago I found myself in a conversation about someone who wasn’t a believer. Now though I didn’t know the person being discussed well, I did know a few things about them—and I’m using the generic plural intentionally to protect their identity. This particular individual is hard-working, conscientious, …
We live in an unusual time, don’t we? We act as though there are two sides to every position—our way and the wrong way. We hold our views so strongly that we can be closed to hearing any position that might counter our own. We’re suspicious of those who hold …
In considering the story of Jonah last week, we saw how prophecy from God worked at two levels: The first level is how we commonly think of prophecy, namely as a prediction of some event that will take place in the future. And this is certainly a key component of …
In this season of Epiphany, of being reminded how the God who made the entire universe revealed himself not only to his chosen people, Israel, but also to non-Israelites, in our morning’s passage we are provided with yet another glimpse into the LORD’s compassionate heart. The story of Jonah is …
This second Sunday of Epiphany, of being reminded of God’s manifestation, his disclosure of himself even to the Gentiles, we are also reminded of the fact that since the time of the Fall of Adam and Eve all humans, beginning with those who existed before God created for himself a …
Having just celebrated the birth of Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, of Jesus who is God and Light who came to bring his light to a world that was then—and is now—and ever has been—in deep darkness, this morning we turn our focus to the mysterious Magi who sought Jesus …
It’s almost impossible to listen our morning’s passage without also hearing in our heads the music George Frideric Handel put it to in his magnificent Messiah—[Sing] “For unto us a child is born….” Such is the power of adding music to Scripture—music is able to make Scripture memorable! As to …
This second Sunday in Advent we are reminded of how God gloriously fulfilled his promise, given for the first time in the Garden of Eden when our first parents disobeyed, that one day the offspring of Eve would come and crush the head of the serpent, the first source of …
