“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

~ Oscar Wilde

Wrapped in Swaddling Cloths

2022-09-07T10:30:30-04:00December 24th, 2017|Sermons|

It was just about midnight on Christmas Eve and everyone was commenting on what a beautiful service it had been – with joyful Christmas carols, the telling of the Christmas story, a wonderful message preached, and the glorious service of candle lighting and the singing of “Silent Night.” Everyone was happy. Everyone except Hazel. I was just a seminary student at the time and I don’t know why she picked me out to complain to, but Hazel caught up to me out in the narthex of this big Methodist Church. She got right up in my face and I [READ MORE]

Whitewater Loving

2022-09-07T10:33:08-04:00August 10th, 2017|Sermons|

A Sermon for Pentecost 10 Matthew 14:13-21 and Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28   The Kennebec River in Maine is well-known for its exhilarating whitewater rafting. With high volume water releases from the turbines at Moosehead Lake, the river swells and flows through several gorges, producing six to eight foot waves and 12-miles of powerful rapids with imposing names such as Big Mama, Whitewasher and the fearsome Magic Falls. We were standing there on the banks of the river one morning a number of years ago. About 30 youth group kids, outfitted in wetsuits, life preservers and helmets, were listening to [READ MORE]

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