“Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come.…” (Rev 1:4) Welcome to Low Sunday, the nickname given to the Sunday after Easter. I’m not entirely sure if we nickname it Low Sunday because it’s the first Sunday after all the pomp and circumstance of Easter Sunday and it feels less spectacular, or because of the traditionally low attendance at church today. In a
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Today, we heard the Lucan version of the Resurrection story, but I wanted to also read to you today the Marcan version from chapter 16: When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. 3 They had been saying to
I’m sure you’re all familiar with the old game called Telephone, where you and a bunch of friends stand in a straight line, and then a person at one end whispers a message to the person next to them. That person whispers it to the next person, over and over until the message reaches the last person in line, who repeats the message out loud so it can be compared to the original message. Rarely
Today's scriptural references are from the Common English Bible. Let me start today’s sermon by telling a quick joke: Knock-knock. [Who’s there?] Boo. [Boo who?] Don’t cry… It’s only a joke! Most of you stopped listening to the joke after I said “Boo” because you knew how it was going to end. (Badly, I might add!) Today we hear the parable of the prodigal son. You might think
Do you hear them? The voices around Jesus. One December night in 1982 in Westland, Michigan, a man and his wife were driving home. Suddenly a fourteen-pound bowling ball crashed through the windshield, killing the man. Why? That question is almost irrepressible, isn’t it? When we face freak accidents or tragic illnesses, the question, “Why?” instinctively forms on our lips. It’s not