Matthew 3:13-17 “Is he going to drown her?” I thought to myself. I was in Romania a decade ago as part of a group of students from Wake Forest Divinity School on pilgrimage for a week, where we were attending a Sunday night baptism service. The large, zealous,...
Matthew 4:12-23 “Immediately they left their nets and followed Jesus.” It’s a jarring, almost fanciful moment – how quickly Andrew and Simon, then James and John – set down their nets. Because it’s not just the nets that drop, it’s a way of being and a whole set of...
Isaiah 35:1-10 and Matthew 11:2-11 It was December 1943 and another Advent season had come for the Lutheran pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer loved Advent. “ The joy of God goes through the poverty of the manger and the agony of the cross”...
Alan P. Sherouse Scripture: Luke 1.26-38 https://media.blubrry.com/fbcgso/p/fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/sermon-8-2-2015-as.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe:...
Alan P. Sherouse Scripture: Mark 1.16-20 https://media.blubrry.com/fbcgso/p/fbcgso.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/sermon-8-9-2015-as.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe:...
