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...