Dreams Come True

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on the First Sunday after Christmas    Matthew 2: 13-23 Some years ago, Garrison Keillor’s “News from Lake Wobegon” told of a very old widow from Chicago who undertook to place a proper stone...

Leave the Light On

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Christmas Eve 2009     John 1: 1-14 How many and different are the reasons that we have come here tonight. Part for the perfect topping on the Christmas cake. Part to float down the river of tradition in...

God’s Not

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Advent Four, Sunday, December 20, 2009    Luke 1: 39-56 Philippians 2: 5-8 The Magnificat is not a mother’s psalm especially, nor even a woman’s. It sounds like many others. Psalm 107 and 98 and 147 use some of...

In the Matrix of Hope

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text for Advent Three, December 13, 2009Luke 1: 26-38 The actual words, few and simple, came to me during a conversation with my very close friend John near the end of my seminary training. “Interpretation is...

Forces in the Desert

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Advent 2, December 6, 2009    Luke 3: 1-6 Luke would have loved the movies. Can’t you see the storyboard for Chapter 3?: “1. Long shot of Milky Way galaxy tracking in fast on Planet Earth. 2. With voice...