One of my most cherished mentors, Luther Ridgeway, preached the same sermon every Christmas Eve. I first heard it in the late 70s. But he first preached it on 25 December 1961, at Williamsville United Methodist Church in western New York. The sermon is entitled “No...
What Kind of Sheep Are You? Story Lectionary 20 December 2015 Fourth Sunday in the Advent of our Lord *Genesis 4 (The Story of Cain and Abel) Genesis 22 (The Story of Abraham and Isaac) Genesis 35 (Jacob is named Israel and Rachel is buried in Bethlehem Ephrath)...
A man was bothered with continual ringing in his ears (tinnitus), bulging eyes, and a flushed face. Over a period of three years he went to doctor after doctor. One took out his tonsils, one removed his appendix, another pulled out all his teeth. Nothing seemed to...
Everyone is celebrating the Sinatra centennial. Here is a story you might be able to weave into one of your sermons. Sinatra was famous for a mercurial temperament. “Yet it would have been unwise for anyone to anticipate his reaction, for he is a wholly unpredictable...
Canadian author Margaret Terry made this her New Year’s Facebook Greeting for 2014. It would make a great Christmas eve meditation, or something to use when you only have a few minutes to convey the good news: “The first year I made Chocolate Hearts, Patrick was six...
