Involve your people in your sermon. If you are talking about bells, mention your bell choir, knowing they will understand intimately what you are referring to. If you are talking about basketball, mention that young man or woman in the congregation who plays the...
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner While I was doing some New Year-inspired reorganizing of bookshelves, Angle of Repose (Penguin Books 1971), a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by William Stegner, rose up from among the stacks. Angle of Repose is an enthralling book...
The second Sunday after Epiphany reminds us of a wedding in Cana. A wedding—probably unremarkable in most ways—that revealed an unexpected side of Jesus. This wedding tells of the first of Jesus’ miracles. Although incarnation is the grounding of our connection with...
An eighty-year-old man went to the doctor’s office for his annual physical checkup. The doctor was hugely impressed with the man’s physical condition. “Sir, you have the body of a man thirty years younger. What is the secret of your extraordinarily good health?” The...
Precocious Story Lectionary 17 January 2016 Genesis (12): The Call of Abram Exodus (2-3): The Saving and Call of Moses Deuteronomy (32): A Song of Moses Psalms of Praise to the Father: Psalms 68, 95, 100, 103, 104, 145, 149 Song of Solomon (2): The precocious fig tree...
