“By the authority vested in me…” We hear these words at weddings, or movie or television weddings. The phrase means that some other power...

So, today we find the disciples caught in a storm, and they are panicking! And who won’t? Whether it is a storm in life or a storm in the...

Our journey through the healing stories in Matthew parallels our own experience, that healing doesn’t always progress along a straight...

Such faith…where do you see it? She was just 13, but her clothes and hair and mannerisms might have led you to believe she was 20. Her...

Universal experience The search for improved health is something that we can all relate to – either for ourselves or for a loved one. ...

Be geese! (Grandpa and grandson: Fishing and watch geese in V – and explain the teamwork of their flight) Diversity makes us stronger. We...

(The music from Mister Rogers plays) Does that music bring a smile to your face? Perhaps it brings back memories of watching Mister...

The Golden Rule is a rule of thumb for many of us. For some of us it may have been the cultural version: “Whoever has the gold makes the...

In the movie, Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, reporter Lloyd Vogel asks Joanne Rogers what is it like to be married to a living saint....

As a congregation, our reality is that we are in different places on our spiritual journey. Some of us are just beginning to live an...

Bruce Wilkinson tells about hearing the neighbors talk about a world-famous peach orchard close by when, as a child, his family moved to...

Stories of the Overlanders who journeyed west are the center of the experience at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in...

One of the first theological conversations that children have emerges when they are setting the rules for a game. “Are there, or are...

Rosemarie Freeney Harding was a civil rights worker in the 1960s. Reading the memoir of her life, you get a sense of the real atrocities...

Apollo 11 Psalm 8 has the unique distinction of being the first biblical text to reach the moon. The crew of Apollo 11 left a silicon...

Our earliest memories may include beautiful things we’ve seen: sunsets, beach scenes, mountains. Others of our earliest memories are...

The problem of suffering Suffering as a challenge to faith has been around as long as human beings. But it’s still immediate. We...

In times of crisis, our normal ways of doing things do NOT apply! We find that nothing is the way it used to be. The entire fabric of...

We feel distant from God, even abandoned. Jesus has something to tell us about staying connected with God. If you love me, keep my...

Today we’re going to talk about the specifics of that SECOND resurrection – the resurrection of the disciples. Of course, we’ll talk...