Sermons & Newsletter Articles

We Want a King

Year B 1 Samuel 8:4-11,16-20 Psalm 138 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Mark 3:20-35 Every time I update my computer software…  there’s an End User Agreement I must agree to before the software will download…  or install…  or work…  not only for programs like PS Elements…  or my Bible software…  or our beloved Zoom…  but even...

Into the Woods

Don’t go into the woods. Unless you bring bug spray. And a vaccine. And unbiased information. And the Gospel. An article (by Mark Torregrossa) posted last month on MLive.com shared that there is a “tick explosion” underway in Michigan this season. Michigan State University entomologist Howard Russell confirmed that twenty years ago, it was difficult...

Three in One and One in Three

Year B Isaiah 6:1-8 Canticle 13 Romans 8:12-17 John 3:1-17 The image on our bulletin cover…  doesn’t represent any event in biblical history…  or story in scripture…  it’s doesn’t refer to the Garden of Eden…  or allude to Noah’s Ark… it’s not a picture of Wise Men…  there are no angels…  no jugs of...

We Possess What We Desire

Year B Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 Romans 8:22-27 John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Genesis 11:1 says… Now the whole earth had one language and the same words…  but when those people…  decided to build that tower…  whose top was in the heavens…  because they were getting a little too big for their britches…  and wanted...

We Are Superheroes

Year B Acts 1:1-11 Psalm 47 Ephesians 1:15-23 Luke 24:44-53 Jesus said…  I am sending you…  what my Father promised…  you will be clothed with power from on high when the Holy Spirit comes upon you…  and you will be my witnesses not only in Jerusalem…  but to the ends of the earth…  ...