sermon

Mar
22

2 Pentecost 2018 Proper 4

A baby girl was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood. She was raped at age nine and became pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. And yet she managed to overcome this cruel beginning […]

Mar
22

3 Pentecost 2018 Proper 5

Have you ever heard the expression, “One hit wonder”? Tom Hanks made a movie titled “That Thing You Do” about a fictional music group, the Oneders or Wonders, who did just that. They were one-hit wonders; that is, they had one best-selling hit song and then they faded. But there were real life one hit […]

Mar
22

Trinity Sunday 2018

Today is Trinity Sunday and one may wonder why we take one Sunday out of the year to celebrate or acknowledge or underscore the Trinity of God. After all, the word trinity is not even found in the Bible. So why, why did such a doctrine come to be and then why is it important? […]