Archive for October 2022

Habakkuk: A Prophet for Our Time Part I The book of Habakkuk is short. Just three little chapters, that’s all. It has no big words. Not hard to read in that sense, but there is so much here that I have to break this sermon into at least two parts. This week and next week…

“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s…

Season of Pentecost  “Ours is not a God of self-improvement plans and 10 steps. Ours is a God of death and resurrection, and that God can take anything and bring it to life.” – Rachel Held Evans From the PVCC newsletter archives, this week in 1976: Mission Council voted unanimously and enthusiastically to support a…

Luke 18:9-14 A Revolution of the Heart In Luke’s gospel Jesus and the Pharisees bump heads at every turn. The Pharisees are the foil, the gang that can’t shoot straight. They never seem to be able to do anything right. If there is an opportunity to take the wrong side of the fight, you can…

Luke 18:1-8 What is Justice The reading for this morning is usually called “The Parable of the Unjust Judge.” Commonly, it is interpreted as a parable about prayer. The widow is an example of the need for persistent prayer and advocacy. I confess that this title has always seemed to me to border on blaming…