Category Archives: sermons

Every year, for at least the first few weeks of the school year, the school secretary of the local elementary school would routinely collect the lunch money from the new kindergartens at the start of each school day, just to make sure the money didn’t get lost during the course of their busy morning activities….

In Mark 4:35-41 The disciples found Jesus asleep in the back of the boat in the midst of a storm at sea, causing them to ask, Jesus, don’t you care what we’re going through?

For the past few weeks we’ve had sort of a vivid illustration all around us of new creation – of the old passing away, and everything becoming new –  as the 17-year cicadas have been emerging from the ground, and leaving behind their shells, emerging as these sort of new creatures. 

Mark Twain once said, “Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”

The 2006 film Amazing Grace tells the story of the 18th century British politician William Wilberforce…