Trumpet for Turning

February 22, 2023
God will settle all accounts.  Each of us labors under a stack of Past Due notices.  We’ve lived beyond our means.  We wanted to have fun, leave the worries for…

Light from Light [No audio.]

October 16, 2022
My boys like to read at night, even after it’s time for lights out.  That’s when they get out their flashlights, so dad won’t know.  Only, dad knows when their…

Expectation and Surprise

November 29, 2020
          Perhaps there are times when it seems, feels, like my preaching gets preoccupied with fallen humanity—those are the times, I guess, when it sounds like I’m ranting, judging, condemning,…

Can We Just Skip That Part?

August 18, 2019
Fire? Division, not peace? Hypocrites? Why does Jesus have to say such things? I mean, I suppose I could just skip all those things he says like what we just…

A Crown for the Lord

January 20, 2019
These words of Isaiah are a poem, a song, a prophecy of hope.  The hope is for Jerusalem; Jerusalem, here, is not simply a city, a spot on the map. …

Spirit and Fire

January 13, 2019
John didn’t look like a Messiah, didn’t act like a Messiah, but some thought that maybe he kind of spoke like a Messiah, so they wondered: Is John the Messiah? …