2 Kings 2:1-12, Mark 9:2-9
This is a book that people use to train sign language interpreters in the liturgy. It’s just a book you can get for yourself on Amazon or some other bookseller; nothing really special…

Matthew 2:1-12
So have you begun to dismantle Christmas yet? How many people have taken down the tree? Removed lights or other decorations?

God grant that your word only may be spoken, that your word only may be heard, for Christ’s sake, Amen. You know when we teach children about worship around here, we teach them there are five parts to worship. I won’t tell you all of them…

Mark 13:24-37
Happy New Year! The first day of our Christian year. We like January first, don’t we? Because it’s a chance to start over and everybody’s starting over with us. We all follow the same calendar, but in the church sometimes it gets lost…

Matthew 5:1-12
So it’s All Saints Sunday. We have to celebrate the feast of All Saints on Sunday because we want you all to be here. A lot of us were mentioned in that hymn we just sang. I was glad I was the priest and not the one who was slain by a fierce wild beast…

Matthew 22:1-14
They say true love is priceless, but a gorgeous destination wedding in Venice lasting three days with parties and every luxury – not so much. At the end of the day George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin’s three-day wedding cost a total of $1.6 million…

Exodus 17:1-7, Matthew 21:23-32
Have you ever spent a day with a cranky kid? A whiner? It might have started out OK but maybe they just got up on the wrong side of the bed. Perhaps they are getting ready for school and can’t decide what to wear…

Matthew 20:1-16
“No fair!” What parent hasn’t heard that from their child? And even if you’re not a parent, you’ve heard a child say it, “No fair! Tom invited Susie to his birthday party, and not me. No fair!” “She gets to stay up until nine o’clock and I don’t. No fair!”…

Exodus 3:1-15, Matthew 16:21-28
So when was the last time God spoke to you? When was the last time you heard God’s voice? I know when I ask that question there are many kinds of answers. It depends on what you mean by the voice of God…

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28, Matthew 14:22-33
When I was a college student in the 1970’s, there came out a wrist band that we wore in honor of the prisoners of war and missing in action soldiers in Vietnam. These bracelets had been produced by a group to keep in front of us that there were many missing soldiers…