Psalm 55 My mother had the kind of personality that valued loyalty above all else. The worst thing that could happen to her was for someone she trusted to betray her trust. This is why the family fight over my grandfather’s business was so devastating to her. She moved with my father to his family’s…
Psalm 51 Is church a place for saints or for sinners? Who are we? Are we saints or are we sinners? There are four possibilities for us with this choice. We can be saints. We can be sinners. We can be saints and sinners at the same time. Or we can be neither saints nor…
Psalm 42 / 43 In Numbers 16 there is an account of a power struggle that took place between Moses and some of the community leaders of the Israelites. Korah, Dathan and Abiram decided that it was not fair that Aaron and his sons were the head priests. Korah, Dathan and Abiram were responsible for…
Psalms When I last preached, two weeks ago, Saul was being sent off to Tarsus by the brothers in Jerusalem and then followed a period of peace in the account of the church in Acts. It seems a good time to take a break from Acts and move on to another part of the Bible….
Exodus 2 This morning is the second Sunday in Advent, the four week period before Christmas in which we focus on waiting for the celebration of the birth of Jesus and for the promised return of Jesus. Currently, my oldest daughter is waiting in Boston for a much anticipated birth at the end of January…