What is a miracle?

What is a miracle? (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Mark 1:4-11
January 7, 2018

What is a miracle?

According to the New Oxford American Dictionary a miracle is “a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency.”  Something surprising.  Something inexplicable, out of the ordinary. … Continue reading ...

It’s not fair

It’s not fair (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Isaiah 53:6
March 22, 2015

Life isn’t fair.

The University of Northern Iowa Panther men’s basketball team had a better won/loss record than Iowa State, a higher national ranking, and fared equally well against two common opponents, and yet the NCAA selection committee awarded Iowa State a “No. 3” seed and UNI a “No.… Continue reading ...

Be the church: forgive often

Be the church: forgive often (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Acts 3:12-19
April 19, 2015

(Strike gavel on pulpit)

All rise!  Court is now in session.  And the presiding judge is … you!

You are the judge.  You are the judge empowered to pass sentence on every person who has hurt you.  You have the power to condemn or to show mercy, to exact punishment — by taking vengeance or by exiling the offender — to exact punishment in one way or another or to forgive. … Continue reading ...

You are that man

You are that man (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
2 Samuel 12:1-7
June 12, 2016

What makes you angry?

When you can’t get service on your cell phone?  When Fareway is all out of your favorite brand of chips?  When the San Jose Sharks and captain and hometown hero, Joe Pavelski, lose?

Do you get angry when you lose the vote? … Continue reading ...