Sermons

The story of the Good Samaritan is more than about doing good for someone. It goes beyond ourselves and our culture. We like the person on the side of the road are wounded and dying and it is Jesus who comes along and risked everything to save us. We who are called to be in His imagine can like Jesus can reach out to those who are lost and dying. We too can share God's love, grace, and mercy through His Son Jesus with a lost and dying world. Thus the question becomes more than "Who is my neighbor" it is "To whom can I be a neighbor."

Most of us had or have someone we'd like to be like. To be like someone or to emulate them means being committed to learn from them. It requires becoming their disciple. Most of us probably never thought about being like Peter, James, John, or one of the other disciples. Jesus reminds us the cost of discipleship is more than we think. And because of the cost we hesitate. But it is the only way to truly follow Him...

When we look in the rearview mirror of life and think about the "good old days" and how wonder they were. As we look back we sometimes reflect on the difficulties and adversities and how we made it through them...the question is do we attribute how we make it through on our own accord, through a "stroke of luck" or do we see with 20/20 eyesight God hand of compassion and restoration in the situation. God compassion will lead to restoration when we place our trust in Him.

Pentecost, the Feast of Shavuot, celebrated 50 days after the Passover with the reaping of the barley harvest and the beginning of the wheat harvest. A day of anticipation of what God provided and what God would provide. A celebration commanded by God from the Passover to the giving of the Ten Commandment on Mt. Sinai to Moses. God revealed Himself and reveals Himself. It is the day God empowers the Church and empowers us to go to preach the Good News of Salvation through the work of Jesus Christ on the Cross...