For While We Live …

For While We Live …

by | Nov 10, 2013 | Sermons, Stewardship

Recently we had a little issue in the church office when we ran out of toner for the printer/copier. Long story short, I drove up to the Canon distribution facility on a rainy day because we had to have that toner to print the newsletter, bulletins, etc. When I...
Vision and Faith as Inheritance

Vision and Faith as Inheritance

by | Nov 3, 2013 | Sermons

Last week I walked around Plainfield Township Cemetery taking pictures, reading tombstones, and meditating on the meaning of this weekend of Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day when we celebrate the lives of people who have gone before us. I asked many...

Surprise! Easter 2013

by | Mar 31, 2013 | Sermons

[This sermon was preceded by bass guitar and drums accompaniment of the Gospel reading from Matthew 27:57-28:2a, which ended abruptly with “And suddenly there was a great earthquake …” and an improvised drum solo.] To be good at improvisation in music, in...

You Are the Full Spectrum Light of the World

by | Mar 3, 2013 | Sermons

My dad says it was around 1979, when I was in 5th or 6th grade, our family bought our first microwave. I remember how amazing it was that in just 4-5 minutes we could cook a TV dinner and eat its steaming corn, green beans, tater tots, salisbury steak, and brownie; of...

Wanna Be Healed? Please Come Forward

by | Feb 24, 2013 | Sermons

[I began this sermon with the personal story of when my niece was eight months old and fell down the stairs in a baby walker. She suffered severe internal bleeding in her skull and was rushed to the hospital where they removed one of her skull plates, sucked out the...

Passing through the Waters

by | Jan 13, 2013 | Methodism, Sermons

I have worked with youth for several years in various roles: as a 7th grade English teacher, confirmation teacher, leader of small groups, retreat leader, mission trip leader, and now as a pastor of youth. I learn each and every time I spend with youth what a blessing...