Last week we began our Advent sermon series with a story from Luke’s gospel about a Jewish couple named Zechariah and Elizabeth, and their hope for a child. This morning…
Today is the first Sunday of Advent. Our Sunday morning journey to Christmas and the birth of the Christ child will be guided by the gospel of Luke. Luke tells…
With Thanksgiving later this week, I chose the topic of hospitality for our biblical conversation this morning. If I were to ask you to identify which character trait we should…
This morning we come to the end of our sermon series on the Parables of Jesus. The story of the Good Samaritan is one of Jesus’ best known parables, not…
All of us own things. The question raised by Jesus’ parable this morning is this: to what extent do our things own us? In thinking of who we are and…
For well over one hundred years, members of our church have been receiving the blessings of God in their lives and have faithfully put them to use for his kingdom…
Continuing our series in the parables this morning, Jesus tells yet another parable about the Kingdom of Heaven, using it to teach us how to be on God’s team in…
When I was a boy growing up in Denmark and Norway, I was fascinated by stories of Danish and Norwegian resistance to the German occupation during WWII. In Denmark, when…