The colors outside the church caught me up yesterday, and I pulled out my trusty phone and snapped a few shots. The quality could be better, but it's a 1st gen smart phone .
Oct. 24 — Some Fundamentals
I want to begin by relating an experience I suspect many of you have also had. I was sitting in the coffee shop a few days ago, with a few books out on the table. One was The Heart of Christianity and the other was Jesus Comes to Harvard. A woman, unknown to either of…
Oct. 10 — Human, All Too Human
The Lord said, “All right” he is in your power. Just don't kill him.” He covered Job with boils, from his scalp to the soles of his feet. Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself with and sat down in the dust. His wife said to him, “How long will you go…
Sept. 26 – Changing the Real Estate
“A relationship with God can be direct, naive, lively, not the kind adults have which usually takes place in the sphere of rumor.” – R. M. Rilke Text: Revelation 10: 1-3, 8-9 In any sermon titled "Changing the Real Estate," you would naturally expect me to talk about two things -- the way the real…
Sept 12 — I Won’t Call you a Sheep
Texts: The pathos of modern theology is its false humility. For theology, this must be a fatal disease, because once theology surrenders its claim to be a metadiscourse, it cannot any longer articulate the word of the creator God, but is bound to turn into the oracular voice of some finite idol . . If…