Sermon Archive

7 strikes and you're out. Peter sounds like a most charitable fellow. It is a lot more tolerant than the 3 strikes and you’re out standard he learned in Hebrew School. Jesus quickly responds, however, “Not 7 times but 70x7.” He’s not prescribing 490 strikes as the Jesus standa...

“True sir, and yet the dogs eat the scraps that fall from their master’s table.”-Matthew 15:27 In his book, Now and Then, Frederick Buechner writes about meeting an unexpected woman while he was spending a Vermont winter doing supply work for a congregation that was between pa...

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a lonely place apart.-Matthew 14:13 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.-Romans 9:2 Today we hear of a significant miracle, the feeding of the multitude, the only miracle included in all four Gosp...