Holy Trinity Sunday Year B This sermon is for June 3 2012. It will be preached by a member of the congregation in my absence while I attend the NC Synod Assembly Today is Trinity Sunday —a festival Sunday on which we celebrate our God—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. And it is…
Pentecost Year B Ezekiel 37:1-14 Acts 2:1-21 John 15:26-27; 16:4-15 The Valley of the Dry Bones. Valley of the Dead. Remember that children’s song? Them bones them bones them dry bones this must be the workin of the Lord. Ezekiel, the prophet who inspired that children’s song, was sent by God to the people of…
Easter 6B John 15:9-17 We have some crazy ideas about love, don’t we? Just think of all the ways we hear it used. Love is a many splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. Love means never having to say you’re sorry. And, as the Beatles say, all you need is love. My…
Easter 5B John 15:1-8 It’s that time of the year when everything seems to be growing. Actually, everything seems to be GREEN! The sunlight streaming in my windows each morning is so green from the reflected light off of the grass and trees that it looks like the sun is wearing enormous green sunglasses. The…
Easter 3B Luke 24:36b-48 Sometimes the most ordinary things can seem so magical. Last weekend I took a class at the Green Energy Park in Dillsboro and for part of that, I got to see a blacksmithing demonstration up close. For centuries, blacksmiths have manufactured useful but quite ordinary tools. They made horseshoes, which are…
Shepherdess Writes 