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...

To An Unknown God

download a PDF of this text Listen to this sermon Texts on Sunday, May 20, 2007       John 17: 20-26; Acts 17: 16-34 Augustine said “Men go to gape at mountain peaks, at the boundless tides of the sea, the broad sweep of rivers, the encircling ocean and the motions of...

Put Your Finger Here

download a PDF of this text Texts on the Sunday after Easter, April 15, 2007              John 20: 19-31; Acts 5: 27-42 Our frigid April temperatures may temporarily suppress the inclination to think about global warming, but it is really coming, now. Don’t you sense...

The Sent-Down Man

download a PDF of this text Text on Maundy Thursday, April 5, 2007              John 13: 1-17 Will Christianity pass away? Will some other religion or philosophy of life take its place? You hear such questions from time to time. In his book Letter to a Christian...

Palm Reading

download a PDF of this text Texts on Sunday, April 1, 2007  Habakkuk 2: 2-11; Luke 19: 28-48 The Palm Sunday painting most of us have had in mind since childhood pictures Jesus waving from his perch in parade, a bower of stately palms above and a street strewn with...

A Fragrance Fills the House

download a PDF of this text Texts on Sunday, March 25, 2007       Isaiah 43: 15-21;       John 12: 1-8 W hen you set out to understand the Bible as it is, you have to come to grips with what I call “the twice told tale.” The question is, why does a particular story...