******** Questions from Suffering series (#1) Job 1:1-22; Lk. 17:5-6 A sermon preached on July 3, 2016 for Brookmeade Congregational UCC ********* Where were you when the unthinkable happened? When the unbelieveable crashed through your consciousness? The gut-punching life-changer? The life-changing, chronic struggle? That life-event that divides a life into “before that happened” and “since then.”…

See the Light of God Revealed John 20:19-31; 1 John 1:1-2:2 A sermon preached with St. John’s UCC (Northampton) on April 15, 2012 Our gospel today gives us a picture of a church. It’s a church which had no fancy organ, or even an old upright piano. No choir. No pastor, even. In fact, it’s a picture…

A Sermon preached January 18, 2015 at Central St. Matthew UCC Psalm 139: 1-6, 13-18; 1 Samuel 3:1-10; John 1:43-51 There’s a lot of Bible in today’s Scripture lesson: Psalms 139, a story from 1 Samuel and some Gospel of John. Psalm 139 is that beautiful poem about how very intimately God knows you, or…