Read the Lectionary Texts I’ve very much enjoyed worshipping with you these past several weeks, even while on vacation in New Hampshire. Thanks to the marvel of modern technology, I was able to visit the church website to watch the sermon each week. Hasn’t technology changed our world? In fact, it has become a humorous part of our family story to note that, forty-plus years ago or so, when we bought our camp on the lake in New Hampshire, we had no hot water, no telephone, and no television. It was very primitive! Forty-plus years later, however, we went [READ MORE]

Read the Lectionary Texts Chosen people. Several times in the first chapter of Ephesians, the apostle Paul reminds us that we are “chosen people.” “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,” Paul writes, “who has blessed us…with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he CHOSE us in him before the creation of the world…” Think about this wonderful foundation upon which our faith is built. Before the world was created…before the Big Bang Banged…before the dawn of creation…when the cosmos was nothing more than chaos…when not a human being yet existed...God CHOSE…you. If you did not know [READ MORE]