Galatians 5:16-26 Ann and I visited the island of Malta in January and read the books of the siege of Malta in 1565 and then again in WWII. Malta is an important island in the Mediterranean because of it’s location. In 1565 and again in WWII, it was able to disrupt shipping and controlling the…
Galatians 5:16-26 “Walter, get down here right away! Company’s coming and you still haven’t picked up the living room.” Mabel’s shrill voice pierced his ears. ‘Yes dear,” Walter responded as he made his way down the stairs. Mabel saw him descending and attacked, “Didn’t I tell you to change your shirt and put on a…
Galatians 5:16-26 How many of you here this morning would like to live a good life? This is a question that is difficult to say no to, isn’t it? It’s a question that would be answered affirmatively in church or at a meeting of citizens at a town meeting or in a local bar. Everyone…
Galatians 5:16-26 Jesus by Frederick Buechner Maybe any one day of a life, even the most humdrum, has in it something of the mystery of that life as a whole. People had been flocking up to Jesus the way they always seemed to when word got around that he was in the neighborhood. A Roman…
Galatians 5:16-25 I was visiting a woman this past Thursday with Habib when we received a phone call that our Egyptian friend Mike was having severe chest pains. He was just recovering from a mild stroke that had put him in the hospital the week before and now this. We rushed back to Rabat and…