Speaker: The Rev. Virginia Herring
I’m kind of glad I missed this dinner party. The tension must have been thicker than the gravy. The Pharisees were watching Jesus – waiting for him to do something they could denounce. Jesus was watching everybody else, looking for any ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
Have you ever sat outside at night and watched for shooting stars? They’re not easy to see, even in the middle of a meteor shower. You never know when they’re going to appear, and they never last for very long. A three second meteor is ...Speaker: The Rev. Virginia Herring
Jesus told his friends a parable. This morning, I’d like to tell you about friend I remember whenever I hear this parable. She was a woman who had a life-long struggle with money. Across the years, she shared her journey with me, and often ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
O Lord, teach us to pray! We’re supposed to pray in some way, but every time we try, we lose it, we don’t do what we think we ought to do. We start worrying about our own lives, or we get focused on a particular problem, and we stop ...Speaker: The Rev. Timothy Patterson
It really is a stunning story. Though it has become such a familiar story that the stunning part of it doesn’t always come through to us. The Good Samaritan. It has really become something of a cliché, on the news or in the newspapers, ...Speaker: The Rev. Virginia Herring
Our story from the Hebrew scriptures is full of important people. There is Naaman, an army commander, and his boss, the King of Aram. There’s also the king of Israel and Elisha, prophet to the nation of Israel. But these ...Speaker: The Rev. Timothy Patterson
Today I want to focus on our first reading, from Galatians, because in this well-known passage I believe that the Apostle Paul has given us an important map for our spiritual journey – a map which zeroes in on three essential biblical ...Speaker: The Rev. Virginia Herring
“Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law…” “As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him…” To what are you beholden? What imprisons and guards you? What ...Speaker: The Rev. Joshua Varner
The real miracle is that she walked in the door in the first place. The community is coming apart at the seams. One group refuses to talk to another, barely even acknowledge the other’s existence! Disagreements seem to be more common and far ...Speaker: The Rev. Virginia Herring
The cycle of the church year has come round, and we now gather in “ordinary time.” We have been through God’s promise of a messiah, we’ve heard how he sent his very own Son to be born of a woman, to become one of us. We have ...