Vultures

Vultures (Click on the sermon title for a .pdf copy)
Matthew 24:1-28
March 30, 2014

“Ode to a vulture.”  A haiku by a poet with the screen name, “reconciled.”

the unwanted guest
patiently the vulture waits
watching … at death’s door

“Wherever there is a dead body, the vultures will gather.”  Fred Phelps was a vulture.

Fred Phelps was the founding pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, a church populated mostly by his own extended family members with a few “converts” from the outside. … Continue reading ...