Sermon Text: John 12: 1-8 I often joke that I must have been especially hard to train for ministry because I had to go to seminary twice. The first time, I was right out of college and at the ripe old age of 21, had a difficult time imagining myself as the pastor of a

Sermon texts: Psalm 34:2-7 and Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Our Scriptures focus heavily on forgiveness this morning.  A lot of folks argue that forgiveness is the foundation of Christianity that sets us apart from all other faith systems.  Really? I don’t think so.  Many faith systems include forgiveness as a key spiritual discipline.  What Christianity became

Sermon Text: Isaiah 55: 1-13 I think it may have been my first day of seminary when this horribly embarrassing thing happened to me. I was sitting in my Introduction to the Old Testament Class and our professor was going on and on about some kind of exile. Now, I knew what the word exile

Sermon Text: Isaiah 55: 1-13 I think it may have been my first day of seminary when this horribly embarrassing thing happened to me. I was sitting in my Introduction to the Old Testament Class and our professor was going on and on about some kind of exile. Now, I knew what the word exile meant,