This Is Not the Way

next in the series from the Elisha cycle download a PDF of this text Texts on Sunday, August 12, 20072 Kings 6: 8-23; John 14: 4-6, 27 Have you ever heard such a tale of peace-making? What shall we make of it? A pacifist might use the story to argue that we can or...

Love, and Do What You Will

next in the series from the Elisha cycle download a PDF of this text Texts on Sunday, July 15, 2007Romans 14: 1-9; 2 Kings 5: 15-19 Remember what we saw last week. We called it a “master/ servant” story, where the master—Naaman—is indeed a master, but only in the...

Be A Christopher

next in the series from the Elisha cycle download a PDF of this text Texts on Sunday, July 8, 2007       Galatians 6: 1-10, 2 Kings 5: 1-14 I f the story we heard last Sunday belongs to the genre of master and disciple stories, this one belongs to the genre of “master...

Decision

(first in the series from the Elisha cycle) download a PDF of this text listen to this sermon Texts on Sunday, July 1, 2007       2 Kings 2: 1-14; Luke 9: 51-62 The stories you have heard this morning are master/disciple stories. They tell of the paradox of decision...

Awake to the Dream

download a PDF of this text listen to this sermon Texts on Sunday, June 10, 2007       1 Kings 17: 8-24;    Luke 7: 11-17 T he story of Elijah in Zarephath begins this way: “When he came to the gate of the town, a widow . . . ” The story of Jesus in Nain begins this...