What Do You Care About? ~ John 4: 7-42
Sunday, March 19th, 2017Two weeks ago, Ron Schmidt gave a Minute for Mission about caring and told a story about softball team members who carried a player from the opposing team who had just hit the game winning home run, but had injured her leg and couldn’t touch all the bases. Apparently if they had just left her […]
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Posted in Sermon Archives, Worship | No Comments »>Let Me See Again ~ Psalm 34: 1-8, Mark 10: 46-52
Sunday, October 25th, 2015In my Bible the little paragraph heading over the lectionary Gospel Lesson for today reads “The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus.” At first glance that’s what the story seems to be about—a blind beggar sitting by the side of the road, calling out to Jesus and having his sight restored. It’s a riveting tale of a […]
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Posted in Sermon Archives, Worship | No Comments »>Wrongful Assumptions ~ Matthew 21:1-17
Sunday, April 13th, 2014I think of myself as someone who reads people pretty well. It’s always a good lesson though to be off the mark some times. I was returning home the other evening from Connecticut on a very full flight. I sat down next to a tall, lanky, dark brown-skinned young
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