01162022 – John 2. 1-11 I felt bad. I tried a joke-slash-story in the sermon last night and no one even cracked a smile. No one! Notta! It couldn’t have been “a BAD story.” Or, they “WAY” that IT WAS TOLD. My TIMING wasn’t off…sooooooooooooooooooooooo I’m gonna chalk it up to Saturday night and the […]
01152022 – John 2. 1-11 It is important to note this is ONLY to be found in the gospel of John. It is IMPORTANT. It is IMPRESSIVE STUFF. It is, what John calls “his FIRST SIGN.” Which obviously means we should EXPECT or ANTICIPATE “other signs” yet to come…it is a HEADS UP…Get READY, stay […]
01012022 – John 1. 10-18 Christmas II I just hope this works on “some level.” I ask that you bear with me. Four different authors watch “an event unfold” and report back their stories to four separate and completely different audiences. The first is a fisherman. He feels the pressure of time and has to […]
07242021 – John 6. 1-21 That morning the rooster crowed, as surely as it did, every single day, waking up a little boy that was perhaps 7 or 8 years old. You know HOW PRECOCIOUS a seven or eight year little boys can be. They are so inquisitive, like little sponges, longing and searching for […]
05262021 – Pentecost Part III The Day of Pentecost had come. The Promise that Jesus had told his followers to prayerfully wait for – had finally arrived. Pentecost was one of the three Jewish festivals in which individuals WERE TO JOURNEY to Jerusalem and appear before the Lord at the temple with their gifts and […]
05232021 – Pentecost! This is not just any day! This day has been hailed as the Birthday of the early Church. Prior to this – the frightened disciples were in hiding. They feared for their very lives and existence. After the Day of Pentecost, they start to find their voices, they start to find […]
O5222021 – The Day of Pentecost (John 15.26-16.15) Only the Author of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts writes OF a specific “day in the life” of “the Jerusalem community” when the spirit IS GIVEN. It is “our present belief” that those two books were written by the self-same individual. Traditionally […]
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 […]