| Story Sermon
Three Wise Women Story Lectionary 4 December 2016 Second Sunday in Advent The Lord Blesses Abraham With Children (Genesis 15) I Will Raise Up a Prophet from Among You (Deuteronomy 18:14-22) Hannah’s Prayer (1 Samuel 2:1-10) Psalm 33: We Put Our Hope in You Psalm 47:...
| Master Sermons
The Final Four: Hope Lectionary 4 December 2016 Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 Text to Life This second Sunday of Advent we are focusing on the second of the “final four” words of this preparatory...
| Preaching Tips
In reading the scriptures, we often “read over” important insights, because those scriptures are so familiar to us –especially those of Christmas and Easter. This season, take a closer look at the people in those scripture stories as people with the same kinds of...
| Open Table |
Loving Without Giving In: Christian Responses to Terrorism and Tyranny By Ron Mock Cascadia Publishing House, 2004 ISBN: 978-1931038249 Review by Douglas Balzer Some books address critical issues. Loving Without Giving In addresses the...
| The Commons
When prisoner in a Nazi internment camp in December 1940, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a nativity play for a group of fellow internees, who were trying to make Christmas come alive for the prisoners. The least known of all Sartre’s works, “Bariona” includes this projection...