So, the question is not, “Will we sacrifice our children?” The question is, “To which god, upon which altar will we sacrifice our children?” We are all busy sacrificing our children to some god, laying their lives upon some altar. So the question is not if we shall be...
I think that’s one reason why you are here this morning. You are looking for answers to life’s big questions, searching for reasons why, groping for some discernible pattern in the confusion. We’ve been bombarded with information, facts, and figures. We don’t need any...
I am hearing this word as a word of achievement and completion. I am hearing this word as the same word Michelangelo uttered when he put his last touch of paint on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Jesus has fought the good fight, and despite what the soldiers, the...
The community of Christ is called and equipped in baptism. In baptism we are taught to find our strength in God and God’s people rather than ourselves. We are prepared for the shock of moral transformation by a cleansing, cold bath. We are born, drowned, adopted,...