REIGN OF CHRIST 26 NOV 2017 Who is your God? Whom will you serve? You have a lot of choices these days it seems. You can choose to...

23 PENTECOST 12 NOV 2017 Even before I was ordained I was warned about weddings. "Funerals are easier" was a refrain I heard more than...

20 PENTECOST 22 OCT 2017 Of all the material I have in my genealogy files a few things stand out: pictures I acquired in the last...

19 A Pentecost. Clothes make the man, or woman, it seems. If you went for a job inter-view how would you dress? Likely you would wear a...

15a Pentecost 17 SEP 2017 When I was in grade school I remember our pencil as being fat and green in color. After printing on what in...

14a Pentecost 10 Sept 2017 Many of you grew up in small town Iowa. Idyllic? Perhaps. I would guess that most of the time you felt...

12 PENTECOST 27 August 2017 What is in a name? At birth names are given to us, usually by our parents. I have never changed my name in my...

5A Pentecost, Proper 8 9 July 2017 Biblical texts can be very, very troubling and there are times you would like to pass over them. ...

TRINITY SUNDAY 11 JUNE 2017 I have heard it said that Trinity Sunday is one typically assigned to new seminary graduates, curates if you...

Easter 2017 15 AND 16 APR 2017 Last October the biggest event was that the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, ending an over 100-year...