When I was in high school, my friend David Huffstetler told me about “Solider in the Rain.” It was a movie he had seen starring Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen, two sergeants in the Army. During the film, whenever they would look forward to some happy event in the...
How many of you had a nickname as a child? Maybe you have a nickname right now. If it’s a nickname between you and your spouse, we don’t want to know that one! Look at your neighbor and share your nicknames. Who’s got a nickname you’ll share with me? When… To...
How many of you had a nickname as a child? Maybe you have a nickname right now. If it’s a nickname between you and your spouse, we don’t want to know that one! Look at your neighbor and share your nicknames. Who’s got a nickname you’ll share with me? … To...
“Sub specie aeternitatis”: From An Eternal Perspective Lectionary 22 May 2016 Trinity Sunday Proverbs 8:1-4; 22-31 Psalm 8 Romans 5:1-5 John 16:12-15 Text to Life The world’s oldest profession is not what you think it is. May is the month when we all feel that tug of...
Trinity Sunday follows Pentecost. Unlike other festivals in the church’s liturgical calendar, Trinity Sunday centers on a doctrine of the church, rather than an event. It celebrates the unfathomable mystery of God’s being as Holy Trinity. It is a day of adoration and...
