Year: 2000

Call to Worship: Voice 1: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in times of trouble. Voice 2: Be still and know that I am God. Voice 1: Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea. Voice 2: Be still … Read more

I’m not sure how many times—but more than once or twice in my thirty years in the ministry—my sermon title for the first Sunday in Advent has been “What Are We Waiting For?” I did not try to go back and look up those old sermons, partly because I didn’t have any time or any … Read more

Scripture: Luke 1:5-23. Somewhere recently I ran across a phrase that caught my attention. The piece I was reading referred to “the curse of the professionally religious”. I like that phrase, and I think it has a number of applications. One of the curses of being professionally religious, I think, is to feel the need … Read more

I think somewhere I wrote that this service would be shorter than usual, and I will try to do my part to make that so. I’m thinking though of my Uncle Frank. When I was little, Christmas was a time I got to see my uncle Frank, one of the relatively few times I got … Read more