Archive for June 2022

Luke 8: 26-39 Living in a Haunted House This is the first in what I hope will become a summer series of dialogue sermons. We often have the mistaken idea that the New Testament gospels are biographies of Jesus. It’s like Jesus had traveling secretaries with him who kept contemporaneous records of what he did…

June 19, 2022 “The disciples’ mistake was also my mistake: They forgot that they have a God who created the universe out of ‘nothing,’ that can put flesh on dry bones ‘nothing,’ that can put life in a dusty womb ‘nothing.’ I mean, let’s face it, ‘nothing’ is God’s favorite material to work with. –…

AJ Beu and Judy Harrison provided special music during worship on June 19th.  They played a piano duet, “Revive Us Again” by John J Husband.

May 5, 2022 “This is what God’s kingdom is like: a bunch of outcasts and oddballs gathered at a table, not because they are rich or worthy or good, but because they are hungry, because they said yes. And there’s always room for more.” – Rachel Held Evans * * * * * * *…

June 15, 2022 Sunday, June 19, is Juneteenth, also known as Jubilee Day. This day commemorates the emancipation of Black people in Texas on June 19, 1865, The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865, ending the debate over, whether or not, slavery was legal in the United States. Last Sunday many of us…