We’ve probably all have some kind of image in mind when we hear the words of our text from Mark’s gospel account this morning. It’s Jesus cleansing the Temple. Maybe we’ve seen paintings depicting the scene or Read more →
February 21, 2021 – “LENT: A SEASON OF RISK – RISKING REPUTATION”
This will be a Lenten season like no other. Besides the fact that we are still not able to meet in person due to the pandemic, we will be journeying through these 40 days of Lent in a different way than we have before. Read more →
February 14, 2021 – ‘NOT JUST HOLDING ON, BUT CARRYING ON”
The movie, “Chariots of Fire” won the Academy Award for best picture in 1981. That movie depicts the real-life story of two British Olympic sprinters, Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddle. Liddle, a devout Christian who was born Read more →
February 7, 2021 – “A GRASSHOPPER THEOLOGY”
Some years ago I remember there was a campaign started by a group of atheists in the UK in response to some advertising done by a Christian organization that said that non-Christians would burn in hell for all eternity. Read more →
January 31, 2021 – “I KNOW WHO YOU ARE”
You will have received information from the church office this week about the upcoming Lent Bible Study. We will be using a guide written by Dr. Amy Jill Levine, who teaches at Vanderbilt University. We used her guide Read more →
January 24, 2021 – “WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE TIME YOU HAVE LEFT?”
You’ve heard me say before that one of the challenges of being a minister is that sometimes people you don’t know ask you what you do and as a minister you never know how your answer will be received. Today is the Sunday of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which takes place in January of every year. Some of you will have heard me share this story Read more →
January 17, 2021 – “GO AND LOOK”
Samuel was a young boy, probably around 12 or 13 years of age, serving in the temple of the Lord at Shiloh under the tutelage of the old priest Eli. It was great to hear Roy read our first scripture reading today because I wanted someone who might have been close to Samuel’s age to read that passage. Read more →
January 10, 2021 – “GOD IS OUT TO GET YOU”
How would you like to have a cousin like John the baptizer? Clothed in camel’s hair and subsisting on a diet of locusts and wild honey, this man is the original survivor, the ancient Jewish version of Bear Grills. Every family seems to have one, the one who looks Read more →
January 3, 2021 – ‘A FORK IN THE ROAD”
The three wise men, or three kings, or the magi. Over the centuries we have made much about these travelers, these seemingly indispensable parts of the Christmas story. They have come to take a place of prominence around the manger on most Christmas pageants, never mind that they were Read more →
December 27, 2020 – “A CHILD CHANGES EVERYTHING”
Our Worship Service is prerecorded and then posted online. Watch on YouTube. Click here for PDF: “A CHILD CHANGES EVERYHTING”The Rev. Victor KimLuke 2:22-40(12-27-20) They’re about 20 inches long and weigh about 7½ pounds at … Read More