This morning I want to begin our series of sermons on what I hope to be Academy Award nominated movies. The actual nominations don’t come out until tomorrow, but all of these movies will be nominated in some capacity and I think are worth spending some time with. Read more →

Well here we are, the first Sunday of a new year. Actually, we are celebrating the first Sunday of a new decade, with apologies to the chronological purists who will tell you that the new decade doesn’t actually start until 2021. But despite those party poopers, another year has passed and we’re all going to get another year older. And of course, with the beginning of a New Year, come those New Year’s resolutions. Read more →

For the longest time I didn’t know that the song the Twelve Days of Christmas wasn’t about the days before Christmas, like a countdown, but is actually about the days after Christmas. Today is actually the 4th day of Christmas, which we all know from the song as what?… That’s right, four calling birds! Calling birds, what in the world are calling birds? Read more →

Close your eyes, picture Mary, the mother of Jesus, maybe with baby Jesus. Have you got an image in mind?  Maybe it’s a painting you’ve seen; maybe it’s a manger creche or a sculpture.  Maybe it’s a stained glass window image.  Maybe it looks something like this. Now imagine Joseph.  Do you have an image?  It’s harder isn’t it?  Are you thinking of this guy? Read more →

Mary, how can you sing? How can you possibly sing? Poor, pregnant and unmarried, how, Mary, can you sing? How can you sing when your life’s been turned upside down? How can you sing when you know that you will always have to deal with the whispers of the so called virgin who became pregnant even before her marriage took place? Read more →