Archives: Sermons

February 28, 2021
If you are really fortunate in these days of warming, sunny skies, you can see them: Sandhill Cranes. I saw a V-shaped squadron of them on Thursday, flying north from their winter habitat along

February 21, 2021
I love this text. I love this text today for a multitude of reasons. It is reminder that God loves us. It shows that God is capable of changing God’s mind, for the better.

February 17, 2021

February 14, 2021
Years ago when I got my first bird feeder, I thought it would make me happy. But it had the opposite effect. Whenever I looked at it, I was mostly angry. I thought my

February 7, 2021
In John’s gospel, Jesus says, “I am the light of the world. In Matthew’s gospel, Jesus says, “YOU are the light of the world. To teach kids this, I give them mirrors. Then I

January 31, 2021
Announcements come in many forms.  You get a baby announcement in the mail and you think: Good news — and you know that it’s true.  After all, why would anyone lie about having a baby? 

January 24, 2021
Recently, my son said to me, “I can’t believe all the money they are spending to roll out the director’s cut of Justice League (a very dismal super hero movie). Instead of spending millions

January 17, 2021
Political corruption leading to national crisis: That is what we saw in the Capitol on January 6. Having been misled by their leaders that an election had been stolen, the unthinkable happened: America’s political

January 10, 2021
Everyone has at least one “interesting” member of the family; someone in the family tree that is a truly odd bird: An eccentric, a curmudgeon, a square peg in a family of round holes.

January 3, 2021
Everyone has at least one “interesting” member of the family; someone in the family tree that is a truly odd bird: An eccentric, a curmudgeon, a square peg in a family of round holes.