Luke 16:1-13 Watch: Listen: Read: A disclaimer as we begin: I’m not sure I quite know how to preach what this parable seems to say. Still, I’d rather be responsible for the Sermon than the Children’s Time (well done, Christina!), as what this parable seems to say goes...
Luke 15:1-11 Watch: Listen: Read: My college roommate was a Prodigal Son. At least that’s what some people said. Richard was admittedly restless. He often seemed to be searching for something. Sometimes these themes came out in his music, as he was an accomplished...
From Pentecost Sunday (June 9) through the end of July, our sermons focus on the book of Acts. If the gospels are the story of Jesus, Acts is the story of the Spirit and what it inspires in the earliest followers of Jesus. “After the coming of the Spirit, some...
Acts 8:26-40 WATCH: LISTEN: READ: It was June, 1964 in my native state of Florida. The sit-in movement that started just down the street and around the corner from where we sit today had invigorated the Civil Rights Movement, reaching to various other cities and...
We know the Messiah of which Handel’s oratorio speaks. It’s Jesus. The Christ. Born to Mary, in Bethlehem. Yet in the whole work – 53 movements, and roughly 3 hours in its entirety, we never hear Jesus’ voice. The text tells us of the promise of the Messiah and the...