Parables of Growth: Walking in Darkness

by | Oct 17, 2004 | Uncategorized

Download a PDF of this text Texts on Sunday, October 17, 2004Job 29: 1-13, Matthew 25: 1-13 Last Monday afternoon, I hiked into the Adirondack wilderness for a three-day sojourn. I have been making this solo pilgrimage into the woods nearly every fall for half my...

Parables of Growth: Already All Right

by | Aug 29, 2004 | Uncategorized

Download a PDF of this text Texts on Sunday, August 29, 2004:Mark 2: 1-12; Romans 5: 18-21 You have a sense, don’t you, how hard it is to be a human being—what an immense weight is a human life; what an heroic feat to carry this soul, your own self, from the cradle...

Parables of Growth

by | Jul 18, 2004 | Uncategorized

Text on Sunday, July 18, 2004     Matthew 20: 1-16 hat labor is there yet undone in your vineyard? I don’t mean work undone in your yard or your attic or your kitchen or your office. It’s summer and this is the Sabbath day of rest. Let’s not concern ourselves for any...

If Christ Was Always Is

by | Jun 6, 2004 | Uncategorized

Download a PDF of this text Texts on Trinity Sunday, June 6, 2004    Proverbs 8:1-8, 22-31; John 1: 1-5 When scientists think about the very beginning of creation, they speak of a “big bang.” The science and equations that lead to the theory of the big bang make a...

Holy City

by | May 30, 2004 | Uncategorized

Download a PDF of this text Texts on Pentecost Sunday, May 30, 2004      Acts 2: 1-18; Revelation 21 & 22 (selections) When at the Pentecost outpouring of Spirit, Peter hears that cynical accusation— They’re all drunk! —he instantly, ardently, powerfully charges...