| Preaching Tips
All Saints Day celebrates the whole body of Christ, past, present, and world-wide. Perhaps make your sermon more participatory this week. Allow people to tell their stories of how God has blessed their lives. Allow stories of healing, stories of community. Let others...
| Pastor's Prayer |
ALMIGHTIE God, whiche haste knitte together thy electe in one Communion and felowship, in the misticall body of thy sonne Christe our Lord; graunt us grace so to folow thy holy Saynctes in all virtues, and godly livyng, that we maye come to those inspeakeable joyes,...
| Digital Feast |
“In 1976, there were 9,000 products in the average grocery store, and now it’s ballooned to 40,000 products. And yet most of us can get almost all our shopping done in just 150 items, so you’re having to ignore tens of thousands of times every time you go shopping.”...
| Open Table |
Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril By Margaret Heffernan Review by Douglas Balzer Willful Blindness engages the complexity of one of the most pervasive issues we face as human beings: not recognizing what is right in front of us and visible....
| Master Sermons
Was Marx Right? Lectionary 23 October 2016 23rd Sunday After Pentecost Joel 2:23-32 Psalm 65 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 Luke 18:9-14 Text to Life No one wants to be “misquoted,” but it happens all the time. Everyone knows the architect of ruthless political success,...
