Passion
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/12/20 Intro: What is a good death? That question has been a major part of this series on the last words of Christ. Yet in our culture today we seem to be allergic to death, even its mention. We avoid discussing death by using euphemisms like “passing on”, “dearly departed” and “resting peace”.
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/09/20 Intro: Back a number of years ago, when I was a youth pastor, our group went on a World Changers Mission Trip to Tallahassee, Florida. I had the joy of being assigned to a roofing crew. Even though we were working on a hip roof, and it was at no place more
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Originally Proclaimed: 04/05/20 Intro Have you ever felt forsaken? Truly I can only ever think of two times in my life where I genuinely felt forsaken. One happened before I was ten. Union’s Carnegie Library held a children’s program for which my Mom dropped me off. It was not unusual for those programs to
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Originally Proclaimed: 03/29/20 Intro: In the earliest Protestant Catechism, the Heidelberg Catechism, the first question asks believers, “What is your only comfort in life and in death?” Just for a moment consider the answer to that question is not being so clear. Think about being someone who has never heard of Christ and his atoning
Let the Shepherd Lead 