Posted In: Sermons | January 29th, 2012
Reflect for a moment on this perennial reality, Creatures of this earth, that we are, limited in strength and knowledge, vulnerable, prey to all kinds of danger and dying, anxiety and fear have always been near to brain and body at any time. Indeed, civilization can be seen as one great campaign against our creatureliness, our frailty, [...]
Read More...Posted In: Sermons | October 9th, 2011
Life is….. how would you finish the sentence. Our answer can be revealing. I thumbed the standard dictionaries of quotations. Life is a veil of tears.
Read More...Posted In: Sermons | February 8th, 2011
Promises. We’ve heard a lot of them lately, haven’t we. “If I am elected, I promise…” “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office…” Congressional committees, “I do solemnly swear to tell the whole truth….” And then there are promises closer to home.
Read More...Posted In: Sermons | January 9th, 2011
First, may I say how happy Marlene and I are to be here with you all, seeing again so many familiar faces and so many not so familiar. Perhaps you are here to see what an Emeritus looks like.
Read More...Posted In: Sermons | November 26th, 2010
In this, the year of our Lord 2006, what are you looking forward to? What out there in the future really excites you,
Read More...Posted In: Sermons | December 31st, 2006
Today a day like any other day, tonight a night like any other night. Yet most of us willexperience the day as different. It is arbitrary, this day.
Read More...Posted In: Sermons | December 17th, 2006
“Have this mind in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human
Read More...Posted In: Sermons | December 10th, 2006
Well, are we going to make it? It’s some test, isn’t it? I have a sneaking suspicion as to what we would all settle for.
Read More...Posted In: Sermons | December 3rd, 2006
Is there anything more omnipresent, more pervasive than music? Millions now walk with thousands of Ipod tunes (if that is what they are) hanging around their necks.
Read More...Posted In: Sermons | November 26th, 2006
In this, the year of our Lord 2006, what are you looking forward to? What out there in the future really excites you, grabs you, makes you want to get up and get going in the morning?
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