| Story Sermon
Masks Off! Story Lectionary 6 November 2016 Jacob and Esau are Restored in God’s Presence and Jacob Builds a Sukkah (Genesis 33) Moses Encounters the “I Am Who I Am” in the Burning Bush (Exodus 3) The Feast of Tabernacles (Deuteronomy 16) God’s Mission...
| Sound Theology |
Bach’s liturgical compositions comprise the vast majority of his output, as the relentless pace of weekly worship required an equally relentless development of musical resources. Bach was a Lutheran—the state church was his employer and the beneficiary of his...
| Master Sermons
Undeserved Lectionary 6 November 2016 25th Sunday After Pentecost Haggai 1:15b-2:9 Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17 Luke 20:27-38 Text to Life “Missed that class!” We all have, haven’t we? There’s always been a class or memo that we have missed,...
| Preaching Tips
This Halloween season, we see more than ever our culture’s fascination with ghosts and the mystery of the unseen. Oddly, this fascination and belief in the super-natural doesn’t seem to pass over into the realm of the HOLY Spirit! Yet, the scriptures are filled with...
| Pastor's Prayer |
Lord, tonight, We will face all that most concerns us: our fears, the shadowed places of the mind; the coming of winter darkness; the cold thin place between waking and sleep. We call to mind the powerless, the lonely, those who most fear the knock at the door; all...