Posts by Greg Yarnell

“Blessed in Bad Times” Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. I want to focus on this text today because there is too much mourning and too little comforting in the United States today. And we are still in January. The year is just beginning. National data for 2020 shows that in…

“Jesus Begins His Work” The reading for today is titled, “Jesus begins his work.” He is walking along the shore of Lake Galilee and sees Peter and Andrew throwing their nets into the sea and he calls to them, “Follow me,” Jesus said, “I will teach you how to fish in the ocean of life.”…

“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.…