In the beginning…that’s how it all starts. Always reminds me of the song “let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…” A great place to start…
Last Sunday night I mentioned to my daughter and son-in-law that I needed to write my Easter sermon, and how I always find it hard. They were surprised and said,…
At my first church, one of the members had a saying that rang true for me as soon as I heard it. “Remember,” she would say, “it’s a legal system,…
I love that Jesus includes whining people in this story! Can you hear it? It’s not fairrrrrr….how come he got more than me? Whoever has or had kids can hear…
The kingdom of heaven is like…Pretty much all of Matthew chapter 13 is focused on this one idea. What is the kingdom of heaven like? Last week we read how…
This passage of scripture got a whole lot more interesting for me when I found out that the Latin word for pearl is “margarita”! Who knew? The Greek word for…
Some words just go together in sets of three. For instance, if I said small and medium, what would you say next? Large! Bacon and lettuce? Tomato! Larry and…
One year on summer vacation, we went to the Chatham United Methodist Church on Cape Cod for their Friday night lobster roll dinner. What a great fundraiser! While we were…
Now this is more like it! We’ve got Jesus’ face shining like the sun. His clothing bright white. On a mountain top! Playing host to two of the biggest names…
No one puts new wine into old wineskins. When we planned this series on the book of Matthew, that is what I thought I would be focusing on this week. …