February 3, 2019
I once met a man who thought of himself as a prophet. What he ended up being was obnoxious. I once thought of myself as a prophet too. I wasn’t. What I ended up being was obnoxious.
February 3, 2019
I once met a man who thought of himself as a prophet. What he ended up being was obnoxious. I once thought of myself as a prophet too. I wasn’t. What I ended up being was obnoxious.
January 27, 2019
Waiting can become a way of life.
January 13, 2019
Jesus is called “Emmanuel” which means “God With Us.” Why is it shocking that Jesus would have just been a face in the crowd, baptized by another face in the crowd (or by you or me)?
December 30, 2018
No sermon text, as Pastor Luke went off the cuff. His sermon was based on a sermon by Dr. Fred Craddock, When the Rolls is Called Down Here. Dr. Fred B. Craddock was the Bandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament, Emeritus, in the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. An ordained… Read More »
December 24, 2018
This is how God comes into the world. Humble, with no bells or whistles. No fanfare. No waft of superiority for the one who made everything.
December 23, 2018
John is a prophet, and if we don’t squirm when a prophet speaks, then we’re hearing them wrong.
December 16, 2018
From the 8:15 and 9 services, text only. Pastor Luke preached on Isaiah 12:2-6 and Luke 1:57-66. Here’s a lovely story we don’t often cover in the lectionary. Zechariah has been unable to speak. He and Elizabeth, his wife, have been unable to have children. Then one day the Angel Gabriel tells him that he… Read More »
December 2, 2018
My Grandma Bet always said, “It’d be all right in the end. If it’s not all right, it’s not the end.”
November 25, 2018
That truth is what Mother Teresa stated when she diagnosed what was wrong with the world: we have forgotten that we belong to one another.
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