Read the Lectionary Texts   Today, I want to invite you to heaven - well, to talk about heaven, and learn about heaven, and maybe even experience heaven. You know, I have some friends who say the Christian Faith would be complete for them even if there were no heaven. They feel strongly that the spiritual values and social ethics and moral principals of the Christian Faith are more than sufficient to cause us to follow Christ. Those things stand on their own, with or without an afterlife, they say. And I won’t argue with that testimony to the [READ MORE]

Read the Lectionary Texts “I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead…” I believe. “I believe for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows. I believe that somewhere in the darkest night, a candle glows. Every time I hear a newborn baby cry, or touch a leaf, or see the [READ MORE]