September 19, 2021 17th Sunday after Pentecost Scripture readings – James 3: 1-12 and Mark 9: 30-37 My name is Simon, and I am one of the followers of the great teacher known as Jesus of Nazareth. I am not the Simon …
September 19, 2021 17th Sunday after Pentecost Scripture readings – James 3: 1-12 and Mark 9: 30-37 My name is Simon, and I am one of the followers of the great teacher known as Jesus of Nazareth. I am not the Simon …
September 12, 2021 16th Sunday after Pentecost Scriptures: Lamentations 5:1-22 and Mark 8: 27-38 This has been an extremely difficult sermon to write. It is next to impossible to think clearly as I have worked on it. I have ignored conventional advice which …
August 29, 2021 14th Sunday after Pentecost Scripture readings: Deuteronomy 4:1-2,6-9 and Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 The newlyweds were settling into their first house after returning from their honeymoon. On the first night, the woman wanted to prepare something special for her husband, so …
June 27, 2021 Fifth Sunday After Pentecost Scripture readings: Lamentations 3: 22-33 and Mark 5: 21-43 The man was falsely and unfair imprisoned in the King’s dungeon on trumped up charges. He studied the stone walls, the hard-packed dirt floor, and …
June 13, 2021 3rd Sunday After Pentecost Scripture readings: Mark 4: 1-9, 26-34 Imagine that you are driving through an unfamiliar neighborhood for whatever reason. Maybe you are lost; maybe you are looking for a friend’s house; maybe you are checking out …
April 4, 2021 Easter Sunday Scripture reading: Mark 16: 1-8 (women find the tomb empty) Today we hear the most frustrating Resurrection account of the four Gospels. One commentator remarked that the ending of Mark’s Gospel is written as if to …
March 28, 2021 Palm Sunday Scripture reading – Mark 11: 1-11 We’ve all heard it before…dozens and dozens of times… described in detail in all four Gospels…the triumphant entry of Jesus of Nazareth into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. We all know …
February 28, 2021 2nd Sunday in Lent Scripture readings – Genesis 17: 1-7,15-16 and Mark 8:31-38 In the days following the end of World War II, Americans of all kinds returned from the business of war and got back to normal. Or …
February 14, 2021 Transfiguration of the Lord Scripture readings – 2nd Corinthians 4: 3-12 and Mark 9: 2-9 In 1949, in an area near the fabled Dead Sea, Bedouin shepherds were searching for missing goats from their herds. One of the young shepherd …