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Sermon Nobody Wants to Work “Nobody wants to work anymore!” You heard people say that? Have you said it? Well, I still have the heart of a librarian and when a question gets into my head, I’ve gotta find an answer. And hearing that phrase over and over lately, I asked myself, “Self, I wonder if generations…

Sermon Introduction On the grounds of the United Nations, there’s a sculpture titled Let Us Beat Swords Into Ploughshares . The sculpture, as you might see, depicts the figure of a man, holding a hammer aloft in one hand and a sword in the other hand, hammering the sword into a ploughshare. It symbolizes…

Sermon Introduction We are quickly approaching the start of the new church year. Next week is the last Sunday of what we call “Ordinary Time,” which ends with the feast day called Christ the King. After that comes the start of the new year with the season of Advent. This year during Advent and Christmas,…

Sermon In AD 197, the Church Father, Tertullian, wrote a booklet called Apolegeticus , a defense of the Christian faith to the Roman Empire. At that time, Christians were coming out from a long period of Empire-sanctioned persecution, mostly related to their conviction that they refused to bow down to…

Sermon Why do bad things happen to good people? It’s a question that probably everyone has asked in their life. If there is an all-good, all-knowing, all-powerful God, why do bad things happen? It’s a good question. It’s a hard question. It’s a deep question. It’s a universal questions and it’s a necessary…