Archive for September 2023

“John’s Word for Us” John is in the wilderness preach’n up a storm. He’s in the desert. In the Bible when they tell you someone is in the desert you might as well hang a sign on the door, “Entering the danger zone.” With apologies to Kenny Loggins, the danger zone ain’t up there in…

“A Guiding Star” Marcus Borg says in his book Reading the Bible Again for the First Time that for many Christians the Bible, which was once a lamp unto the feet of the faithful, has become a stumbling block. We don’t know what to make of it. It doesn’t make sense to take it literally,…

“Mary’s Song” I owe the inspiration of this sermon to Cardinal Suenens of the Roman Catholic Church, the Women of Kansas, and Margarett Atwood. An unlikely trinity but God works in strange and wondrous ways divine miracles to perform.  Let me start with Cardinal Suenens. He was a Dutch cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.…

“Change Is Coming” World HIV/AIDS day was December 1st. The first global World HIV/AIDS day was in 1988. A lot of things have changed since 1988, but according to the experts there are still 38 million people living with the HIV virus in the world today. In many places they have to deal not only…

“Dreams Without Borders” If confession is good for the soul, it is also good for the sermon. I stole the title for this sermon from the Dreamers. DACA, Deferred Action for Children Arrivals, is a federal program protecting certain people from the threat of deportation. Later Congress passed the Citizenship Act, which allowed DACA Dreams…