Matthew 2:1-12 This is how the story of what happened 24 years ago was told to me. It was the early morning that my nephew Andrew was born. My mother, his soon to be grandmother, had a dream which awakened her with a start. In her dream she found herself back teaching 3rd grade when …
Month: December 2018
Making Room: Experiencing God’s Wonders
Luke 2:1-20 I would offer now a story of ‘making room’ — one where God is working God’s wonders again and again. And again. A few years back, Dean, a long faithful member of our congregation who was then in his late 90’s, gave us his house. He no longer had need of it as …
Mary and Hannah and a Woman in the County Jail
Luke 1:39-55 I find myself wondering at Mary now… wondering how it is that she came to be so articulate, so poetic, so very wise at such a young age. While there is much we cannot know about this young woman who was chosen for a life she could not have imagined, from what we …
One Sermon
Luke 3:7-18 Many years ago my mentor and friend, Pastor Antti Lepisto, told me that we all have ‘one sermon’ which we just keep preaching over and over again. I know he meant that in terms of what comes from the pulpit week after week, but these days I am wondering if it is even …
In the Wilderness With John…
Luke 3:1-6 As is always the case, it is ours to consider John for two weeks again this Advent season. Next week we will receive the direct words of his preaching as the one who is clearly ‘preparing the way’ for ‘the one more powerful whose thongs of his sandals he knows himself unworthy to …