On the Holy Roller-Coaster

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, October 12, 2008     Exodus 32: 1-14; Philippians 4: 1-13 At the point that the wilderness wanderers of Exodus beg Aaron to make them gods, they have been on an awesome emotional...

The Fruit and the Vine

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, October 5, 2008Isaiah 5: 1-8 and Matthew 21: 33-46 When Jesus started to tell his parable—There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it— the listeners cannot have missed his...

Quantum, Creation & Christ

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, July 20, 2008Genesis 1: 1-3 and John 1: 1-5 Our texts for today begin “in the beginning.” In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void....

We : One

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts for Worship at the Annual Meeting of the Presbytery of Western New YorkMay 27, 2008Psalm 133, Ephesians 4: 1-6, John 17: 20-23 I ‘ve been reading a lot in the field of organizational development and leadership...

Why Do You Stand Looking Up?

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, May 4, 2008    Luke 24: 44-53 and Acts 1: 3-14 There are two Ascension stories, and Luke tells both of them. One in the last chapter of Luke, the other in the first chapter of Acts....

See Inside for More

download a PDF of this text listen to this sermon Texts on Sunday, April 6, 2008     Isaiah 6: 6-13; Luke 24: 13-35 Those first disciples are pretty happy about Jesus’ resurrection. The early church is pretty happy about resurrection. Maybe your...

Them

download a PDF of this text Text on Good Friday, March 21, 2008Luke 23: 32-38 “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.”—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr In the words you have just heard, up to that perfect benediction, “Father,...

Cross Now

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, September 30, 2007Colossians 3: 1-11; Jeremiah 32: 1-15 Some from my church will recognize the phrase, “the sine-wave method of teaching the Older Testament.” I use this method in my classes to help...

The Jesus Game

download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Texts on Sunday, September 16, 2007Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18; Luke 10: 25-42 “I wish to create around myself conditions in which a man would be continually reminded of the sense and aim of his existence by an...

If What You Fear Does Not Exist

next in the series from the Elisha cycle download a PDF of this textlisten to this sermon Text on Sunday, August 26, 20072 Kings 6: 24—7:17 These stories from the Elisha cycle overwhelm me with their energy. In spite of, or perhaps because of, their fabulous nature,...