Road to Damascus
04/07/2019 15:27
[Is. 43:16-21; Philip. 3:4b-14; Jn. 12:1-8]
Peace to all of you who are in Christ. Amen.
Saint Paul’s story reads a bit like a crime novel: the villain, in pursuit of the innocent, has a change of heart and repents of his evil ways.
A classic story of the great turn around and...
It started with a voice on the wind...
03/17/2019 14:40
[Gen. 15:1-12, 17-18; Philip. 3:17-4:1; Lk. 13:31-35]
Peace to all of you who are in Christ. Amen.
“It started with a voice on the wind.
“At first I thought an evil spirit was trying to trick me. There are many trickster-spirits, you see, but the voice claimed to be El,...
Transfiguration
03/03/2019 19:41
[Ex. 34:29-35; Lk. 9:28-36]
Peace to all of you who are in Christ. Amen.
A reading from the letter to the Philippians chapter two:
…Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as...
Blessed are you...
02/17/2019 12:52
[
Jer. 17:5-10; i Cor. 15:12-20; Lk. 6:17-26]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
The Beatitudes, the blessings Jesus mentions today are a very well-known part in the New Testament. Luke has four blessings and four warnings. Matthew’s...
We are one!
01/27/2019 13:45
[Neh. 8:1-10; i Cor. 12:12-31a; Lk. 4:14-21]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
If you could be any body part, which one would that be?
A leg perhaps?
An arm?
The brain?
In any case, whichever body part we might like to be, we...
I will find you
12/31/2018 16:02
[i Sam. 2:18-20, 26; Lk. 2:45-52]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
They say it takes a village to raise a child.
The raising of a human child is so complicated that it takes more than two parents to be involved in its...
To us, To you
12/29/2018 14:34
[Is. 9:2-7; Lk. 2:1-14]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Why are you here?
Why have you come to this place this morning?
What compelled you to get up on a Tuesday morning, travel to this building, and find a reasonably...
On baptism
12/16/2018 12:47
Zeph. 3:14-20; Philip. 4:4-7; Lk. 3:7-18]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
“You brood of vipers!”
Whatever gave John the idea that insulting people would warm them to his message!?
Any advertising man or woman will tell you that...
Advent is a prophet
12/09/2018 13:30
Mal. 3:1-4; Philip. 1:3-11; Lk. 3:1-6]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
What does it mean, to prepare, to repent?
How do we know when we’re ready?
John the Baptist might well be the prime example of preparation.
He’s a...
The Perception of God
12/09/2018 13:28
Dan 7:9-10, 13-14; Rev. 1:4b-8; Jn. 18:33-37]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Last June, an undergraduate student at the Faculty for Protestant Theology and Studies of Religion in Brussels handed in her Bachelor dissertation entitled...