Sermon for Pentecost Sunday – June 4, 2017 Acts 2:1-21, John 20:19-23 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jsus Christ. There was a story on the Today Show a few months ago about a baby who was born deaf.  When the baby was three...

Sermon for the Sixth Sunday of Easter – May 21, 2017 John 14:15-21 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. It has often been noted how many of the Disney movies feature parents who are deceased or otherwise absent.  Think...

Sermon for the Fifth Sunday of Easter – May 14th, 2017 Acts 7:55-60, 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. When Bob Hope was in his last moments on this earth, his beloved wife was there at his...

Sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Easter – May 7, 2017 Psalm 23, 1 Peter 2:19-25, John 10:1-10 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. As fluffy and cute and utterly non-threatening as they are, sheep have a surprising number...

Sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter – April 23, 2017 John 20:19-31 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Each year when my sons celebrate their birthday, I write them a letter.  These letters are being sealed and saved...

Sermon for Easter Sunday – April 16th, 2017 Colossians 3:1-4, Matthew 28:1-10 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. The guards stationed at Jesus’ tomb were plated in heavy armor.  They were armed with swords at their...

Sermon for the Fifth Sunday in Lent – April 2, 2017 John 11:1-45 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. This past Wednesday in the hill country of Texas, a church van from First Baptist Church of New Braunfels was returning...

Sermon for the Third Sunday in Lent – March 19, 2017 John 4:5-42 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. You are being watched. If you have a smartphone, unless you’ve disabled a number of different settings, it knows where...

Sermon for the Second Sunday in Lent – March 12, 2017 John 3:1-17 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Three of the best days of my life have been the days my three sons were born.  They were scary, nerve-wracking days,...

Sermon for the First Sunday in Lent – March 5th, 2017 Matthew 4:1-11 Dear friends, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Playing at the Whidbey Playhouse right now is the Stephen Sondheim musical “Into the Woods.”  I know many members...