by Angela Ward | Jul 22, 2019 | Text Sermons
I was being guided through a hospital on Monday to visit someone, and my guide, who had an English accent, very politely, asked if he could tell me a story about religion. Internally I rolled my eyes, but since he had such a lovely accent and was so polite, I said,...
by Angela Ward | Jul 15, 2019 | Text Sermons
How’d it go for you this week living as a Christian in the world? Did you have an opportunity to share your faith? How many times did you have to turn the other cheek? Were you able to be a peacemaker? Did you suffer any abuse because of your faith? Bill, how’d...
by Angela Ward | Jul 11, 2019 | Text Sermons
Do all of you remember the Flintstones? I remember a recurring theme in the show that bedeviled Fred Flintstone. It went like this: Fred had two options, a virtuous option, and a not so virtuous option, and poof, on his shoulders would appear two versions of himself,...
by Angela Ward | Jun 30, 2019 | Text Sermons
At the end of our appointed text this morning from the Gospel according to St. Luke, Jesus provides some agricultural and theological counsel: “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” Even if you’re not a farmer...
by Jacki Boedecker | Jun 25, 2019 | Text Sermons
Once upon a time, in the days when you actually might send a child to the grocery store by herself, Betty took much too long returning from the store. “What on earth took you so long?” asked her mother. “I was watching the funeral of the devil,” Betty replied. “What...
by Angela Ward | Jun 18, 2019 | Text Sermons
Soon after our Lord’s resurrection, St. Paul wrote a powerful and provocative letter to a growing community of Christians in the City of Rome. In the fifth chapter of his letter to the Romans, he tells them: “Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace...
