Mark 1:9-11 In sixth grade, my best friend Tom and I both tried out for the part of Santa Claus in the school play. It was a singing part and my aunt tried to help me sing with a deeper voice. (Good luck.) I got the part and my friend Tom told me I got…
Mark 1:1-20 As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 17 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” 18 At once they left their nets and followed him. 19 When he had…
II Peter 3:1-18 When I first became a follower of Jesus in the early 1970s, there was a lot of excitement about the return of Jesus. Hal Lindsey wrote The Late Great Planet Earth, which sold 28,000,000 copies. In this book he said that the 1970s were the era of the Antichrist and that the…
Ephesians 2:19-22 I often say that the week of Easter is the best week of my year. The services begin with Palm Sunday and then move to our Seder Meal on Thursday, our Good Friday service, and culminate Sunday with our Easter sunrise service, breakfast, and morning service. These services are so packed with meaning…
Ephesians 2:14-18 My father had a number of prejudices, although I think he liked to hang on to them simply to provoke discussion. When I was in seminary one of my roommates came with me to visit my family and when my father discovered that my friend, David, had grown up in France, he said,…