[youtube:http://youtu.be/Pfm3aRkcb_I] Isaiah 55:10-13 Romans 8:1-11 Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Whenever I have planted a garden, I am very careful about prepping the soil, adding in fresh soil, compost and other things that will help retain moisture and provide nutrients for the seeds I am about to plant. Then I till all that together and make nice … [Read more…]
Audio Link Acts 2:14a Acts 2:36–41 Psalm 116:1–4 Psalm 116:12–19 1Peter 1:17–23 John 20:19–31 I have secrets and do not care to share them. I have had secrets that I dare not share at the time. Some secrets we have may be related to self-perception. Some related to others perception of us. Some are grounded … [Read more…]
He was taken from us, why did this happen!? God, Jesus said He was Your Son. If that were so, then why did You let Him die? Why God, why have you forsaken Your Son? If Him, then what about us? Jesus, King of the Jews, Son of man, Son of the living God, has … [Read more…]
Jesus of Nazareth has been taken from us! We just broke bread together and shared in drink. Now He has been betrayed and taken away. We are scattered and scared, not knowing what will come of this. We are in silence, in hiding for our own fear of what will happen next. Will they punish … [Read more…]
Audio Sermon Link Luke 8:26-39 It is all to easy to dismiss, with our scientific knowledge of today, that this man who approached Jesus in Gerasen as being just mentally ill. We can so easily justify that the lack of knowledge of the people of Jesus’s time, just did not understand mental illness and that … [Read more…]
This same miracle story is also seen in Matthew 8:23-27 and Luke 8:22-25. When comparing the stories, I find that in the NRSV, the author of Matthew starts out the story with a command of getting into the boat and Jesus leading the way. In Mark and Luke, there is no commandment by Jesus to … [Read more…]