04272022 – Stop the Killing..Stop the bloodshed…Stop the wars! BODIES have always mattered. (At least as far as the church is concerned!) I guess that is WHY when someone is murdered or killed, they always try to “HIDE the BODY.” BODIES are important. They matter. BODIES mean something to us. When there is “NO” BODY, […]
05192021 – John 11. 6-19 “Protect Them” Jesus prayed “protect them from the evil one.” Once upon a time there was a man who was AFRAID of everything. EVERYTHING! He decided that, in order to be really SAFE, he would purchase for himself a complete SUIT OF ARMOR. When he put on the armor, […]
05162021 – JOHN 17. 6-19 Last evening, I tried to keep it “lite” as the Season of Easter begins to wind down. But “my sense was” that people wanted a little bit more MEAT, so Saturday night received “a lite version” while you guys are receiving “a little more depth.” God only knows where we […]
05152021 – John 17. 6-19 Most preachers know the quote attributed to the famed theologian KARL BARTH: “We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other” – he is quoted as saying. We HAVE “an INHERENT NEED” to be “RELEVANT.” We need to be CURRENT. We need to […]
05122021 – John 15. 9-17 Way back on Maundy Thursday, (Holy Thursday,) in the life of the church, Jesus continued his teaching…The clock was ticking…and the hour was growing late. It was just “mere hours” before his series of trials and his crucifixion…and his excruciating death…would begin. We assume, he knew what laid […]
05082021 – John 15. 9-17 Easter6B (Mother’s Day Weekend) There’s SOMETHING about mothers…They have this “amazing ability” to hear A SNEEZE or a MUFFLED COUGH, through three closed doors in the middle of the night, upstairs or downstairs, at least three rooms away…all the while dad is snoring up a storm – next […]
04172021 – Luke 24. 13-49 The truth be told…it is another very odd gospel story. Very Odd. I mean who would write this stuff? And publish it? For the whole world to read and to see? The paradox of “Christian “DIS”-BELIEVERS” is a biblical fact, “believe it or not.” That “First Easter dawn was […]
04132021 – John 20. 19-31 Easter – Week 2 – Series B – the year of Mark, but we find ourselves once again, in the Gospel of John. A lot of people do not GET the timeline here. The timeline IS extremely important. The timeline IS THE CONTEXT. When our Gospel text opens up, IT […]
04102021 – John 20. 19-31 Fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounded the disciples. FUD. Yep, that’s a thing! FUD-fear, uncertainty, and doubt. This is critical in our “contextual understanding.” Context is everything. They were “fearful people” behind locked doors. (Today, there would have been multiple locks, cameras, security systems and probably, guns.) We […]
05242020 – John 17. 1-11 So, this week I did a STUDY on the word “GINOSKO” – The GREEK word GINOSKO means to “LEARN to KNOW,” or to “COME to know,” “to get KNOWLEDGE of,” “to PERCEIVE” or “to FEEL.” It means “to UNDERSTAND.” “To become “acquainted WITH, to know.” I pushed FORWARD. I had […]