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Today I came into possession of some hearing aids mostly, or perhaps wholly due to the persistence of my wife. We have been working on this project for what seems like a decade or two. It has taken this much time due to my re...

What is faith?  I mentioned this morning about a story I once heard about the law of the pendulum.   It is about a college student taking a class in which each student must make a dramatic presentatio...

I ran out of time Sunday.  Although the world wants to say that everyone goes to Heaven, this isn’t true because of the issue of justice.  In America we are fighting about the meaning of justice, but ever...

(Credit to Gail Mount and Diane Traynor for the beautiful display created in above picture.) So Easter (Resurrection Day) service has come and gone for another year.  How does this remembrance impact the other 364 days o...

Last Sunday our guest, Jerome, preached on “Saved by a donkey,” focusing on Balaam.  Unfortunately, the lie and trap of Balaam remained alive and well into the first century, and is still active and deceiving...

What do you do when someone does what you normally do at church instead of you? This past Sunday, my dear friend, Jerome Byrd, preached in my stead.  What did I do?  Well, what do you think I should have done? ...

Are we God’s creation or God’s children?  We scratched the surface of this in today’s sermon.  There is no disputing that we are God’s creation.  Genesis 1-2 gives us the account of God&...

Today many want to tear up or break from the past, broaden our morality, or as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote we should strive to become our authentic self or the determiner of our own self values.  These direc...

As I prepared for the sermon for this morning, I searched to see what others said about “follow your heart.”  Here is what Steve Jobs said: ” Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone els...

In our reading through the Bible together, our passage for today was Jeremiah 26-27.  I got as far as 26:2 and came to an abrupt stop.  Here is the verse. Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the Lord’s h...

Walking through this past week has taught me something, but let me set the stage first.  I missed this morning’s service (actually joined online) because I was sick.  I had also been exposed to COVID recently,...

I read an article long ago, just a few weeks before my mom passed away.  It was on time management and stress.  It was written for those of us who make lists and live life by accomplishing the things on those lists....