Matthew 24:36-44 I snapped this picture last spring before the trees had yet leafed out. The sign had already been up for some time by then, although I have to say I never actually went inside to see what they might possibly be selling for a dollar in a furniture store. (Today if you drive by you …
Luke 23:33-43 Last week I sat at the bedside of a woman who has struggled with her health for some time. It was her third hospitalization in a couple of months and that afternoon she was especially uncomfortable. Our conversation had waned when one of the cleaning staff quietly walked in. She greeted Anna by …
Luke 21:5-19 I would be less than truthful if I said I knew precisely what to make of the Gospel lesson before us now. On the one hand, I do know at least a little bit of what it means when ‘temples fall.’ Anyone who has experienced the world changing around us has experienced the …
Luke 20:27-38 I am guilty of this, I know I am. I preach funerals and I paint pictures imagining heaven as a place that is some kind of extension of all that we have held dear here in this life. I would guess this is because my imagination is earth-bound. This is all I know. …