By most accounts, one might consider the younger son in today’s parable an entitled, obnoxious, pathetic, emotionally stunted man-child....

I’ll never forget my first real wake up call about not being immortal. Before I started seminary I worked for a year as an analyst at an...

In this morning’s Gospel lesson Jesus is recounting Israel’s own history of rejecting and even killing the prophets that God sent to...

One of the worst features of my generation is our obsession with how we present to others. Yet this is an issue that has gone on for ages...

I want to begin by thanking, and acknowledging the reflection at the end of this sermon provided by the Reverend Dr. Mark Clavier on the...

I’ll never forget a sharp rebuke given to my PhD supervisor from someone who read an article he’d written about how deep faith in the...

One of my favorite characters in Scripture is the widow at Zarepheth. Do you remember the story? God sends the prophet, Elijah to her...

Our passage this morning tells us of events that actually follow immediately after Jesus is returned by the Holy Spirit, from having been...

In our passage this morning we hear that Jesus is at a wedding with his mother and some disciples. Unfortunately, someone organizing the...

How much time in a given week, in a month, in a year, or how about over your lifetimes, have you spent striving to accomplish goals?...