15th Sunday in Ordinary Time "Life and Spirit"

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time - In the Same Boat

11th Sunday in Ordinary Time & In-Town Mission Trip

Christ the King
Luke 14:8-14 Invite   Off-lectionary sermon. People often ask if we, a clergy couple, ever share or swap sermons.  We don’t.  But sometimes one of us comes across something that fires both of us up.  This is one of those sermons, not shared, but mutually fired up.     1.  Way In Around here, Thanksgiving starts today big feast tonight in the dining room after Hanging the Greens after church

33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
  Isaiah 43:19 I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.     1.  Way In Are you   happy   angry    satisfied    frustrated    excited     confused ? are you some of each mostly one or two Do you wonder what I’m talking about? maybe I better back up Maybe you haven’t heard th

32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mark 12:38-44 Threads   1.  Way In A gift from my mother Housewarming gift when we moved to SC placemats made by my great-grandparents of Gulfport, MS – Horace and Mary Hinds same fabric as the blanket they made probably had lots of bolts of these yarns many similar pieces but my blanket has a silver thread through it Scriptures are like these heirlooms from my great-grandparents’ loom focus on the individual threads

31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
While I was away at University of Rhode Island Parent’s Weekend, Elder Charlie Castle was the guest preacher at First Presbyterian Church.  See you next week.

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mark 10: 46-52 “See” 1.  Way In Last Sunday, Pauly (5 yr.old son) and I attended a Young Life banquet with Kazy (wife) in Piqua, Grace Methodist Church seated with 4 other people – colleagues, acquaintances of Kazy There were about 150 people there our table was about like everybody else’s but Pauly was about the y