For those of you who might have been expecting to listen to my Palm Sunday sermon…bad news. We had a technical glitch yesterday, and the recording was not usuable. So let me just hit the highlights for you: It’s interesting that in the 4 accounts of the triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the people still don’t [...]
I was in a great frame of mind until I read this morning’s paper ( which means my good mood lasted about 20 minutes!). The first article I read concerned the Episcopal Church’s upcoming Lambeth Conference in England. Church officials have told Bishop Gene Robinson that he cannot fully participate in the gathering. That means [...]
It’s been an interesting day in the news. Barack Obama has spent it trying to distance himself from remarks made by his pastor, remarks deemed both anti-American and racist. Senator Obama’s response was to simply say, “I disagree with that.” Of course, that made me wonder if my own church members have ever tried to [...]
If you’re a CNN fan as I am, you’ve no doubt gotten caught up in the latest sexual scandal in politics. Everytime I hear of another politician who has cheated on his wife and gotten caught, and I watch the sharks start to circle, I think of the story in John 8 where a woman who [...]
Most of you know that Judy and I are voracious readers, sometimes reading 2 or 3 books per week. As we read, we often share with each other the passages we find truly moving and memorable. We recently read The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. The book is set in South Carolina in [...]
Several people have told me in the last week or so how much they have appreciated the last 4 sermons…some of the comments from people who NEVER say anything about one. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t think much of it, but the comments were so good and so frequent that I began to think about what was [...]
There are only two weeks of Lent left, and I was wondering how you are doing with the commitments you made at its beginning. My sermon on the first Sunday of Lent challenged you to observe a holy Lent by doing the following: Pray Regularly and Specifically; Fast; Give with an emphasis on the poor. [...]
One of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits followed our government’s decision to return some Native American archaelogical findings to the tribes from which they came rather than put them in a museum. The SNL newscaster, after announcing this gesture of ungovernment-like magnanimity, noted that, “As for the rest of North America, we’ll be keeping that.” Did [...]
The most courageous conservative I know is Brian McLaren. He has risked his standing in the conservative evangelical movement by insisting that the problem with the church is not cosmetic…not about worship styles, musical preferences, or other ways of getting more groovy. Instead, he says the problem is that “the Christian religion appears to be [...]
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