Sermon Archive (Page 18)

After reading today’s Gospel story, I think I have a better idea now where my daycare mom got her ideas for conflict management with a dozen of us kids running around. I went to someone’s house every day for daycare growing up and I loved it; she really was like a bonus mom to us. And, I remember her setting some high standards for us and how we were to behave. It’s not…

There are certain experiences in life that I will never forget. I wish I could say that they are all happy memories, but unfortunately this also includes times like receiving the phone call when my grandmother died unexpectedly while I was in college, when my uncle was diagnosed with cancer, and later when my dad was on his way to come get me because we were flying down…

I really struggled to write this sermon this week. I would write a sentence or two only to go back and erase it. I think this was happening for several reasons. One, this isn’t as difficult of a Gospel passage today, but it is one where is gets really easy for me to lost in the academic side trails, which are sometimes fun and mostly confusing to follow. Two is that the…